Saint Croix Parish, New Brunswick


Saint Croix is a civil parish in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada, straddling Route 1 to the north of Saint Andrews, New Brunswick. Its name comes from the Saint Croix River, which forms part of its western border.
For governance purposes it is divided into two local service districts.
The Census subdivision of the same name includes the entire parish, while the LSD of Bayside is used as a Designated place.

History

Saint Croix Parish was created in 1874 from the northern part of Saint Andrews Parish.

Boundaries

External Boundaries

Saint Croix has the most irregular boundaries in Charlotte County, taking in an area based on land grants along and near Route 127, Cathcart Road, and Waweig Road to the north of Route 1 and along Frye Road and Chamcook and Little Chamcook Lakes to the south.

Official Delineation

The entire parish can be found on New Brunswick Cadastral Map No. 161.
Saint Croix Parish is defined in the Territorial Division Act as being bounded:

  • East and South by a line beginning at the most Northern angle of a four hundred and eighty-eight acre lot, granted to Daniel Hill, on Waweig River;
  • thence Southeasterly, along the Northeastern limit of said lot, to the Western angle of Lot No. 3, granted to James McFarlane;
  • thence Northeasterly, along the Northwestern limit of Lot No. 3, to the Northern angle of same;
  • thence Southeasterly, along the Northeastern limit of Lots Numbered 3, 2, 1 and 12 and of Lot No. 13, granted to John H. Armstrong, to the Eastern angle of Lot No. 13;
  • thence Southwesterly, along the Southeastern limit of Lot No. 13, to the Northeastern limit of the grant to William Reading;
  • thence Southeasterly, along the Northeastern limit of the grant to William Reading to the Eastern angle of same;
  • thence Southwesterly, along the Southeastern limit of the grant to William Reading, to the Northeastern limit of the grant to Rachael Mowat;
  • thence Southeasterly, along said Northeastern limit to the Eastern angle of same;
  • thence Southwesterly, along the Southeastern limit of lot granted to Rachael Mowat and of Lots Numbered 9, 8, 7, 6 and 5 to the Northeastern limit of Lot No. 4 granted to Maxwell Lawry;
  • thence Southeasterly along said Northeastern limit of Lot No. 4, to the Eastern angle of same;
  • thence Southwesterly along the Southeastern limit of Lots Numbered 4, 3 and 2 to the Southern angle of Lot 2, granted to Lauchlan Doon;
  • thence Northwesterly along the Southwestern limit of Lot No. 2 to the Southeastern limit of Lot No. 28, granted to Moses J. Greenlaw;
  • thence Southwesterly, along the Southeastern limit of Lot No. 28 to the Northeastern angle of Lot 29, granted to Jesse C. Bartlett;
  • thence Southerly, along the Eastern limit of lot 29, to the Northwestern angle of Lot No. 45, granted to Jesse C. Bartlett;
  • thence Easterly along the Northern limit of Lot 45 to the Northeastern angle of same;
  • thence Southerly, along the Eastern limit of Lot 45, to the Northern limit of the hundred acre lot granted to Andrew Dougherty;
  • thence Easterly, along the said Northern limit to the Western bank or shore of Bonaparte Lake;
  • thence Southerly, along said bank or shore, to meet the Northerly prolongation of the Eastern limit of Lot No. 4 granted to Leonard Bartlett;
  • thence Southerly along said prolongation and said limit to the Northern limit of Lot No. 3 granted to Thomas Sime;
  • thence Westerly along said Northern limit to the Northwestern angle of Lot No. 3;
  • thence Southerly, along the Western limit of Lots Numbered 3, 2 and 1 to the Southeastern angle of Lot No. 11 granted to James Greenlaw;
  • thence Westerly, along the Southern limit of Lot No. 11, to the Eastern bank or shore of Little Chamcook Lake;
  • thence Southerly along the Eastern bank or shore of Little Chamcook Lake and the Eastern bank or shore of Fry Mill Stream to the bank or shore of Chamcook Lake;
  • thence Southerly, Westerly and Northerly along the Eastern, Southern and Western banks or shores of Chamcook Lake to the Northern limit of the five hundred acre lot granted to Colin Campbell, Thomas Wyer and William Gallop;
  • thence Westerly, along said Northern limit, to the Eastern limit of lots fronting on the St. Croix River;
  • thence Southerly along the Eastern limit of lots fronting on the St. Croix River to the Southeastern angle of Lot No. 38 granted to Daniel Grant;
  • thence Westerly along the Southern limit of lot 38 to the St. Croix River;
  • West by the St. Croix River and Saint David Parish,
  • North by Saint David Parish
  • including Rickets Island in Waweig River.

Internal Boundaries

Communities that appear on provincial government maps. Names in italics appear on grant maps but not on highway maps.
Rivers, lakes, and other bodies of water that appear on provincial government maps.
Islands that appear on provincial government maps.

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