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As the council worked on developing the original county lines, they desperately needed maps of the province, which, at the time, they seemingly lacked. As a result, they relied on two maps by Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres from 1780, the best candidates for a map of New Brunswick at the time. [11]
Moncton (/ ˈ m ʌ ŋ k t ən /; French pronunciation:) is the most populous city in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Situated in the Petitcodiac River Valley, Moncton lies at the geographic centre of the Maritime Provinces .
Location of New Brunswick in Canada Distribution of New Brunswick's 107 municipalities and rural communities by municipal status type, before 2023 reforms. New Brunswick is the eighth-most populous province in Canada, with 775,610 residents as of the 2021 census, and the third-smallest province by land area, at 71,248.50 km 2 (27,509.20 sq mi). [1]
The largest city by population in New Brunswick is Moncton with 79,470 residents, and the smallest is Campbellton with 7,049 residents. Campbellton is also the smallest city by land area, spanning 18.57 square kilometres (7.17 sq mi), while Saint John is the largest at 315.59 square kilometres (121.85 sq mi). [7]
This is a list of communities in New Brunswick, a province in Canada. For the purposes of this list, a community is defined as either an incorporated municipality, an Indian reserve , or an unincorporated community inside or outside a municipality.
The Canadian province of New Brunswick is divided by the Territorial Division Act [1] into 152 geographic parishes, [a] units which had political significance as subdivisions of counties until the Municipalities Act of 1966. [b] Parishes still exist in law and include any municipality, rural community, or regional municipality within their ...
Westmorland County (2021 population: 163,576 [2]) is a county in New Brunswick, a province of Canada.It is in the south-eastern part of the province. It contains the fast-growing commercial centre of Moncton and its northern and eastern suburbs.
In 1784 New Brunswick was created via the partitioning of the Colony of Nova Scotia and divided into the counties of NB, which were in turn divided into parishes.By the 1960s the province was a patchwork of incorporated cities, towns, villages, local improvement districts, [5] and local administrative commissions. [6]