Gagetown Parish, New Brunswick


Gagetown is a civil parish in Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada.
For governance purposes it is divided between CFB Gagetown, the village of Gagetown and the local service district of Upper Gagetown.

History

Gagetown Parish was created in 1765 as Gage Township in Nova Scotia: in 1786 this township became Gagetown Parish as part of the new province of New Brunswick: named for General Thomas Gage, commander in chief of the British forces in North America from 1763-1772 and a local land grantee: included part of Petersville Parish until 1838.

Delineation

Gagetown Parish is defined in the Territorial Division Act as being bounded:

Communities

Parish population total does not include incorporated municipalities .
This is a list of rivers, lakes, streams, creeks, marshes and Islands that are at least partially in this parish

Population

Population trend
CensusPopulationChange
20163111.6%
20113166.4%
20062975.4%
20013140.0%

Language

Mother tongue language
LanguagePopulationPct
French only103.2%
English only30096.8%
Both English and French00.00%
Other languages00.00%

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits: