Saint-Léonard Parish, New Brunswick

Saint-Léonard
St. Leonard
Parish

Location within Madawaska County, New Brunswick.
Coordinates: 47°14′06″N 67°48′00″W / 47.235°N 67.8°W / 47.235; -67.8
Country  Canada
Province  New Brunswick
County Madawaska
Established 1850
Area[1]
 • Land 343.97 km2 (132.81 sq mi)
Population (2011)[1]
 • Total 1,052
 • Density 3.1/km2 (8/sq mi)
 • Pop 2006-2011 Increase 1.3%
 • Dwellings 400
Time zone AST (UTC-4)
 • Summer (DST) ADT (UTC-3)

Saint-Léonard is a Canadian parish in Madawaska County, New Brunswick.[2]

Delineation

Saint-Léonard Parish is defined in the Territorial Division Act[3] as being bounded:

Bounded easterly by the Victoria County line; southwesterly by the St. John River and northwesterly by the following described line:
Beginning at a point in the International Boundary line where the same is intersected by the western prolongation of the south limit of lot No. 99, granted to Andrew Michaud; thence in an easterly direction along said prolongation and said limit of said lot, the eastern prolongation of same and the south limit of lot No. 281, granted to Rosomo Violette, and its eastern prolongation to a point in the eastern bank or shore of the Grand River;[lower-alpha 1] thence in a northerly direction along said bank or shore of said river to a point where the same is intersected by the west limit of lot No. 218, granted to Wm. Byram; thence in a southerly direction along said limit of said lot to the southwest angle of the same; thence in an easterly and southerly direction following the south limit of Tier One, south of the aforesaid Grand River, to the southeast angle of lot No. 272, granted to A. Dube; thence in an easterly direction along the division line between the Second Tract and the Fourth Tract West, granted to the New Brunswick Railway Company, and the eastern prolongation of same to a point in the aforesaid Victoria County line, including the Islands in front, but excepting therefrom the Parish of Saint-André.

Communities

Parish population total does not include incorporated municipalities (in bold):

  • Bellefleur
  • Coombes Road
  • Cyr Junction
  • Grand-Ruisseau
  • Martin Siding

Demographics

Population

Population trend[5]

Census Population Change (%)
2006 1,039 Decrease2.0%
2001 1,060 Decrease5.5%
1996 1,122 Increase14.8%
1991 977 N/A

Language

Mother tongue language (2006)[6]

Language Population Pct (%)
French only 960 93.66%
Both English and French 25 2.44%
Other languages 25 2.44%
English only 15 1.46%

See also

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Now officially Grande Rivière.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Saint-Léonard Parish, New Brunswick
  2. ↑ New Brunswick Provincial Archives - Saint-Léonard Parish
  3. ↑ "Territorial Division Act (R.S.N.B. 1973, c. T-3)". Government of New Brunswick website. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
  4. ↑ "Grand River (Grande Rivière)". Canadian Geographical Names. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 26 August 2016.
  5. ↑ Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006 census
  6. ↑ 2006 Statistics Canada Community Profile: Saint-Léonard Parish, New Brunswick


 Sainte-Anne Parish Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes Parish
Drummond Parish
(Victoria County)
   Saint-Léonard Parish  
Aroostook County, Maine
 United States		 Saint-André Parish


Coordinates: 47°14′06″N 67°48′00″W / 47.23500°N 67.80000°W / 47.23500; -67.80000 (Saint-Léonard Parish, New Brunswick)

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