Rothesay Parish, New Brunswick

The parish may have been named in honour of the Duke of Rothesay, one of the hereditary titles of the Prince of Wales, who visited the area in 1860{{cite book |last1=Ganong |first1=William F. |title=A Monograph of the Place-Nomenclature of the Province of New Brunswick |date=1896 |publisher=Royal Society of Canada |page=266 |url=https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.12511 |access-date=17 March 2021}} as part of his tour of North America.

Rothesay was erected from Hampton Parish in 1870.{{cite book| title=Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick Passed in the Months of March & April 1870.| date=1870| publisher=Government of New Brunswick| location=Fredericton| pages=112–115| chapter=33 Vic. c. 56 An Act to erect a part of the Parish of Hampton, in King's County, into a separate Town or Parish.}} Available as a free ebook from Google Books.

In 1873 the boundary with Hampton was clarified among the islands of Hammond River and altered to run along grant lines on the mainland.{{cite book| title=Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick. Passed in the Months of March & April 1873.| date=1873| publisher=Government of New Brunswick| location=Fredericton| pages=254–255| chapter=36 Vic. c. 76 An Act to alter the division line between the Parishes of Hampton and Rothesay in the County of King's County.}} Available as a free ebook from Google Books.

Rothesay Parish is bounded:{{cite web |title=No. 149 |url=https://archives.gnb.ca/App_Handlers/FileDownloadHandler.ashx?filename=/DigitizedDocuments/Communities/Maps/Cadastral/_Oversize/GRPA149.jpg |website=Provincial Archives of New Brunswick |publisher=Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development |access-date=14 June 2021}} Remainder of parish on map 157 at same site.{{cite web |title=446 |url=https://www.gnb.ca/0113/maps/Mapbooks/maps-2020/map446.pdf |website=Transportation and Infrastructure |publisher=Government of New Brunswick |access-date=14 June 2021}} Remainder of parish on mapbooks 460, 461, 473, and 474 at same site.{{cite web |title=Search the Canadian Geographical Names Database (CGNDB) |url=http://www4.rncan.gc.ca/search-place-names/search?lang=en |website=Government of Canada |access-date=14 June 2021}}

• on the northwest by the Kennebecasis River;
• on the east by a line running up the Hammond River through its eastern channel, passing to the west of Darlings Island, past the island upriver of Darlings Island, then along grant lines through two islands, then upriver to a point about 675 metres upriver of Route 1, then south-southeasterly along a line about 300 metres west of, and parallel to, the eastern line of a grant to Zephaniah Kingsley to the rear line of the grant, then easterly along the grant line to the northeastern corner of a grant to Samuel Storms, then southeasterly along the eastern line of the Storms grant to the Saint John County line;
• on the south by the Saint John County line.

Communities at least partly within the parish; bold indicates an incorporated municipality

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• French Village
• Quispamsis
• Blairs
• Gondola Point
• Hammond River
• Meenans Corner
• Otty Glen
• Ritchie Lake
• Stoneycroft

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• Rothesay
• Barsa Subdivision
• East Riverside-Kinghurst
• Fairvale
• Hillhurst
• Kennebecasis Park
• Renforth
• Upper Golden Grove
• Wells

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Bodies of waterNot including brooks, ponds or coves. at least partly in the parish:

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• Hammond River
• Kennebecasis River
• Salmon Creek
• Allison Lake
• Bay Lake
• Bradley Lakes

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• Duck Lake
• Hunter Lake
• MacFarlane Lake
• McKeever Lake
• McLachlan Lake
• Ritchie Lake

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Parks, historic sites, and related entities in the parish.

• Stoneycroft Provincial Historic Site

Parish population total does not include Quispamsis and the town of Rothesay

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Population trendStatistics Canada: 2001, 2006 census{{cite web |title=Census Profile, 2016 Census: Rothesay, Parish [Census subdivision], New Brunswick |url=https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CSD&Code1=1305008&Geo2=PR&Code2=13&SearchText=rothes&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&TABID=1&type=0 |publisher=Statistics Canada |accessdate=September 19, 2019}}

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Mother tongue (2016)

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Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits:Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas {{ISBN|978-1-55368-618-7}}

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• Highways
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• Principal Routes
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• Secondary Routes:
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• External Routes:
• None

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• List of parishes in New Brunswick

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[http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CSD&Code1=1305008&Geo2=CD&Code2=1305&Data=Count&SearchText=Rothesay&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&Custom=&TABID=1 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Rothesay Parish, New Brunswick]

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• [http://quispamsis.ca/ Town of Quispamsis]
• [http://www.rothesay.ca/ Town of Rothesay]

{{Geographic Location (8-way)

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| North =

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| East = Hampton Parish

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| Northwest = Saint John River
Kingston Parish

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Category:Local service districts of Kings County, New Brunswick

Category:Parishes of Kings County, New Brunswick