Petersville is a geographic parish in Queens County, New Brunswick, Canada.
Prior to the 2023 governance reform, for governance purposes it was divided between CFB Gagetown and the local service districts of Wirral-Enniskillen and the parish of Petersville. Wirral-Enniskillen was part of Capital Region Service Commission (RSC11) and Petersville Parish was part of the Fundy Regional Service Commission (FRSC).
Origin of name William Francis Ganong states that the parish was named in honour of Harry Peters, then Speaker of the House of Assembly. 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.
Much of the parish was expropriated in 1953 for the creation of CFB Gagetown.
Boundaries Petersville Parish is bounded: Remainder of parish on maps 147–149, 155, 156, and 163 at same site. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 429, 443–445, 458–460, 471, and 472 at same site.
on the northeast and east within CFB GagetownRoads still appear on cadastral maps but not in highway mapbooks; because the old roads and grants are used in the Territorial Division Act they're used here. 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. italics indicate a community expropriated for CFB Gagetown
Armstrong Corner Bayard Blakely Clarendon Clones Cootes Hill Dunns Corner Enniskillen Ferris Fowlers Corners Headline Loisville Olinville Petersville South Clones Summer Hill Vincent Welsford West Jerusalem Wirral Wirral Station
Bodies of water Bodies of waterNot including brooks, ponds or coves. at least partly within the parish.
River George West Branch Musquash River Brittain Stream Crystal Stream Cunningham Creek more than fifteen officially named lakes
Other notable places Parks, historic sites, and other noteworthy places at least partly within the parish. CFB Gagetown Lepreau River Wildlife Management Area Loch Alva Protected Natural Area
Demographics
Population Population trendStatistics Canada: 2001, 2006 census Census Population Change (%) 2016 681 5.8% 2011 723 4.6% 2006 758
Language Mother tongue (2016) Language Population Pct (%) English only 645 94.2% French only 35 5.1% Both English and French 0 0% Other languages 5 0.7%
Access Routes 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
Highways
Principal Routes
None
External Routes: None
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References
External links Petersville Local Service District-LSD