Dundas Parish, New Brunswick

Dundas
Parish

Location within Kent County, New Brunswick.
Coordinates: 46°16′N 64°52′W / 46.27°N 64.86°W / 46.27; -64.86
Country  Canada
Province  New Brunswick
County Kent
Established 1826
Area[1]
  Land 230.31 km2 (88.92 sq mi)
Population (2011)[1]
  Total 6,282
  Density 27.3/km2 (71/sq mi)
  Pop 2006-2011 Decrease 1.2%
  Dwellings 3,862
Time zone AST (UTC-4)
  Summer (DST) ADT (UTC-3)

Dundas is a Canadian parish in Kent County, New Brunswick.[2]

Its population in the 2011 Census was 6,282.

Delineation

Dundas Parish is defined in the Territorial Division Act[3] as being bounded:

South by the County line; west by the McLaughlin Road;[lower-alpha 1] north by a line beginning at the seashore, at the northeastern angle of lot no. 1, granted to Joseph Richard; thence south seventy-two degrees and thirty minutes west seven hundred and sixty-five chains, or until it meets the westerly line of lot number 86, granted to Maximin A. Girouard; thence along the western line of said lot in a southerly direction, to meet the southern line of lot number 84, granted to Beloni Robicheau; thence westerly along the said southern line of the last-mentioned grant and its westerly prolongation to the eastern side of the McLaughlin Road; and east by the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, including all the islands in front.

Communities

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

Demographics

Population

Population trend[4]

Census Population Change (%)
2006 6,356 Increase2.9%
2001 6,174 Increase0.2%
1996 6,162 Increase3.5%
1991 5,951 N/A

Language

Mother tongue language (2006)[5]

Language Population Pct (%)
French only 5,405 85.93%
English only 775 12.32%
Both English and French 70 1.11%
Other languages 40 0.64%

See also

Footnotes

References



Coordinates: 46°16′12″N 64°51′36″W / 46.27000°N 64.86000°W / 46.27000; -64.86000 (Dundas Parish, New Brunswick)

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 8/19/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.