Wirral-Enniskillen
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| established_title = Founded
| established_date = 1854
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| area_total_km2 = 29.41
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Wirral-Enniskillen is a former local service district in the Canadian province of New Brunswick.{{cite web |title=New Brunswick Regulation 84-168 under the Municipalities Act (O.C. 84-582) |url=http://laws.gnb.ca/en/showfulldoc/cr/84-168// |publisher=Government of New Brunswick |accessdate=19 July 2020}} It is located at the confluence of the Gaspereau and Salmon rivers.
History
Originally settled as Gaspereau and later Gaspereau Station, when it was a flag station on the Canadian Pacific Railway. It was renamed Wirral after the English peninsula of the same name in 1923.{{cite web|url=https://archives.gnb.ca/Exhibits/Communities/Details.aspx?culture=en-CA&community=4460|title=Wirral|publisher=Place Names of New Brunswick: Where is Home? New Brunswick Communities Past and Present|website=archives.gnb.ca|accessdate=16 May 2020}}
Amalgamated with the former community of Enniskillen, which was among the communities expropriated for CFB Gagetown. It was first settled as Adair Settlement in 1826 by Irish immigrants and renamed Enniskillen after the town in Ireland.{{cite web|url=https://archives.gnb.ca/Exhibits/Communities/Details.aspx?culture=en-CA&community=1235|title=Enniskillen|publisher=Place Names of New Brunswick: Where is Home? New Brunswick Communities Past and Present|website=archives.gnb.ca|accessdate=16 May 2020}} It also included the former farming community of Blakely, which merged in 1911.{{cite web|url=https://archives.gnb.ca/Exhibits/Communities/Details.aspx?culture=en-CA&community=0356|title=Blakely|publisher=Place Names of New Brunswick: Where is Home? New Brunswick Communities Past and Present|website=archives.gnb.ca|accessdate=16 May 2020}}
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Wirral-Enniskillen had a population of 226 living in 96 of its 103 total private dwellings, a change of {{percentage|{{#expr:226-204}}|204|1}} from its 2016 population of 204. With a land area of {{cvt|29.3|km2}}, it had a population density of {{Pop density|226|29.3|km2|sqmi|prec=1}} in 2021.{{cite web | url=https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/cv.action?pid=9810001201 | title=Population and dwelling counts: Canada and designated places | publisher=Statistics Canada | date=February 9, 2022 | accessdate=January 2, 2025}}
{{Historical populations
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Gaspereaux/Wirral, NB
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|1871|600
|1898|40
|1996|272
|2001|821
|2006|758
|2011|226
|2016|204
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See also
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Category:Communities in Queens County, New Brunswick
Category:Designated places in New Brunswick
Category:Local service districts of Queens County, New Brunswick
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