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Petersville is a civil parish in Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada.[2]

Petersville
Parish
Location within Queens County, New Brunswick.
Country	Canada
Province	New Brunswick
County	Queens County
Erected	1838
Area [1]
• Land	589.95 km2 (227.78 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[1]
• Total	710
• Density	1.2/km2 (3/sq mi)
• Change 2016-2021	4.3%
• Dwellings	323
Time zone	UTC-4 (AST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-3 (ADT)

For governance purposes it is divided between CFB Gagetown and the local service districts of Wirral-Enniskillen and the parish of Petersville.[3] Wirral-Enniskillen is part of Regional Service Commission 11 (RSC11) and Petersville Parish is part of the Fundy Regional Service Commission (FRSC).[4]

Origin of name

William Francis Ganong states that the parish was named in honour of Harry Peters, then Speaker of the House of Assembly.[5] Peters' tenure as Speaker actually ended in 1827 but he continued to serve as MLA until 1843. Harry's brother Charles Jeffery Peters was Attorney General of New Brunswick when the parish was erected.

History

Petersville was erected in 1838 from Gagetown and Hampstead Parishes.[6]

Much of the parish was expropriated in 1953 for the creation of CFB Gagetown.

Boundaries

Petersville Parish is bounded:[2][7][8]

• on the northeast and east within CFB Gagetown[lower-alpha 1] by a line beginning at the prolongation of the southwestern line of a grant to Thomas T. Hewlett at the corner of Lawfield and Kerr Roads in Summer Hill, then southwesterly following Lawfield Road to the westernmost corner of a grant to Henry Appleby, then southeasterly along the prolongation of the northeastern line of a grant to Sylvanus Haviland to its easternmost corner, then southwest to the Yorkshire Road, then along Yorkshire Road to the Kings County line;
• on the southeast by the Kings County line;
• on the southwest by the Charlotte County line;
• on the northwest by the Sunbury County line.

Communities

Communities at least partly within the parish.[7][8][9] italics indicate a community expropriated for CFB Gagetown

Bodies of water

Bodies of water[lower-alpha 2] at least partly within the parish.[7][8][9]

Other notable places

Parks, historic sites, and other noteworthy places at least partly within the parish.[7][8][9]

• CFB Gagetown
• Lepreau River Wildlife Management Area[10]
• Loch Alva Protected Natural Area[11]

Demographics

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits:[15]

Notes

References

External links

• Petersville Local Service District-LSD

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