- Source: Southesk Parish, New Brunswick
Southesk is a geographic parish in Northumberland County, New Brunswick, Canada.
For governance purposes it is divided between the Indian reserve of Red Bank 4, the incorporated rural community of Miramichi River Valley, and the Greater Miramichi rural district, the last two of which are members of the Greater Miramichi Regional Service Commission.
Prior to the 2023 governance reform, all of the parish outside the Indian reserve formed the local service district of the parish of South Esk.
Origin of name
The parish takes its name from its position relative to Northesk Parish.
History
Southesk was erected in 1879 from Northesk Parish south of the Northwest Miramichi River and a northwestern line starting at the mouth of the Little Southwest Miramichi River. The Derby Parish boundary was significantly differently than it is today.
Boundaries
Southesk Parish is bounded:
on the north, beginning on the Victoria County line at a point about 150 metres south-southeast of Route 385, then running south 45º east to the mouth of the Little Southwest Miramichi River, then down the Northwest Miramichi River to a point about 825 metres downstream of the Route 8 bridge;
on the east by a line from the middle of the Northwest Miramichi River to the northeastern corner of a grant to Charles Vye Sr., about 700 metres east of Enclosure Road;
on the south by a line beginning at the northeastern corner of the Vye grant, then westerly in a straight line 116 chains (about 2.3 kilometres) to the southeastern line of a grant to Stephen Sherwood at a point about 700 metres slightly east of south of the junction of Route 420 and Creamer Road, then northwesterly to Old Creamer Road, then southwesterly about 600 metres along Old Creamer Road to the southwestern line of a grant to James Oxford, then northwesterly along the Oxford grant to its westernmost corner, then southwesterly and northwesterly along the rear line of grants on the Southwest Miramichi River, then northwesterly and southwesterly to exclude a grant to Jared Betts on the northeastern side of Williamstown Road, then southeasterly along Williamstown Road to rejoin the rear line of Southwest Miramichi River grants, then generally southwesterly along the river grants before turning westerly to exclude several inland grants straddling Route 8 south of Crocker Lake, then southwesterly to Route 8 at the northwest line of the Elm Tree Tract granted to William Davidson, then southwesterly along the Elm Tree Tract and its prolongation to the Blackville Parish line, about 1.8 kilometres northwesterly of Route 8, then northwesterly about 7 kilometres along a line running north 22º west from the mouth of the Renous River, then south 72º west by an astronomic bearing to the York County line;
on the west by the York and Victoria county lines.
= Evolution of boundaries
=Southesk has had the same western, northern, and eastern boundaries from its creation; the boundary with Derby was a straight line running a line running south 68º west from modern Wilsons Point.
In 1920 the boundary with Derby Parish was changed to run along property and grant lines. The wording was ambiguous enough to require clarification in 1953 and 1954. The 1954 Act also changed the wording of the boundary with Blackville, Blissfield, and Ludlow Parishes to run partly by an astronomic rather than a magnetic bearing.
Communities
Communities at least partly within the parish. bold indicates an Indian reserve
Bodies of water
Bodies of water at least partly within the parish.
Islands
Islands at least partly within the parish.
Gibbons Island
Johnsons Island
Other notable places
Parks, historic sites, and other noteworthy places at least partly within the parish.
Adder Lakes Protected Natural Area
Christmas Mountains
Gover Mountain Protected Natural Area
Kennedy Lakes Protected Natural Area
Little Southwest Miramichi River Protected Natural Area
Lower North Branch Little Southwest Miramichi River Protected Natural Area
McCarty Brook Protected Natural Area
McNeal Brook Protected Natural Area
Miller Brook Protected Natural Area
Nalaisk Mountain Protected Natural Area
North Pole Stream Protected Natural Area
Patchell Brook Protected Natural Area
Plaster Rock-Renous Wildlife Management Area
Tauadook River Protected Natural Area
Upper Dungarvon River Protected Natural Area
Wilson's Point Wildlife Refuge
Demographics
Parish population total does not include Indian reserves
See also
List of parishes in New Brunswick
Notes
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Southesk Parish, New Brunswick
- List of parishes in New Brunswick
- Nelson Parish, New Brunswick
- Derby Parish, New Brunswick
- Northesk Parish, New Brunswick
- Northumberland County, New Brunswick
- List of communities in New Brunswick
- South Esk, New Brunswick
- Ludlow Parish, New Brunswick
- Blackville Parish, New Brunswick
