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Waterford is a civil parish in York County, New Brunswick, Canada.[2]

Waterford
Parish
Location within Kings County, New Brunswick.
Coordinates: 45.84°N 64.59°W / 45.84; -64.59
Country	Canada
Province	New Brunswick
County	Kings County
Erected	1874
Area [1]
• Land	221.27 km2 (85.43 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[1]
• Total	491
• Density	2.2/km2 (6/sq mi)
• Change 2016-2021	4.7%
• Dwellings	255
Time zone	UTC-4 (AST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-3 (ADT)

For governance purposes it forms the local service district of the parish of Waterford,[3] which is a member of Regional Service Commission 8 (RSC8).[4]

Poley Mountain is located here.

Origin of name

The parish was said locally to be named by Mr. A. McAfee, an Irish immigrant, for Waterford, Ireland.[5]

History

Waterford was erected in 1874 from Sussex Parish.[6]

In 1875 the boundary with Hammond Parish was altered.[7]

Boundaries

Waterford Parish is bounded:[2][8][9][10]

• on the north by a line beginning on the Sussex Parish line at a point southeast of DeCourcey Lake and about 1.4 kilometres north-northwest of Trout Creek, then running east-northeasterly along the southern line of grants straddling Picadilly Road until it reaches the northeastern corner of a grant to David Law on the southern side of Law Road, then east-southeasterly to the northwestern line of a grant to Thomas Nicholson, on the eastern side of Morton Road west-southwesterly of Mechanic Lake, then east-northeasterly along the northern line of the Nicholson grant and its prolongation to the Albert County line;
• on the east by the Albert County line;
• on the south by a line beginning on the Albert County line at a point about 1.65 kilometres south-southeast from Route 114, then running north 88º west[lower-alpha 1] to the northeastern corner of a grant to William Thompson, about 450 metres south of the southern tip of Walton Lake and about 150 metres west of the Creek Road, then westerly to a point about 825 metres north of the western end of Cassidy Lake in Upham Parish;
• on the west by a line running south[lower-alpha 2] from the mouth of Halfway Brook in Studholm Parish.

Communities

Communities at least partly within the parish.[8][9][10] italics indicate a name no longer in official use

Bodies of water

Bodies of water[lower-alpha 3] at least partly in the parish.[8][9][10]

Other notable places

Parks, historic sites, and other noteworthy places at least partly in the parish.[8][9][10][13]

• Fundy National Park
• McManus Hill Protected Natural Area
• Poley Mountain

Demographics

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits:[17]

Notable people

• Bessie Ella Hazen, painter, born in Waterford[18]

See also

• List of parishes in New Brunswick

Notes

References

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