Elgin Parish, New Brunswick

Elgin
Parish
Location within Albert County. Location within Albert County.
Coordinates:
Country	Canada
Province	New Brunswick
County	Albert
Established	1847
Area
• Land	519.38 km2 (200.53 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	968
• Density	1.9/km2 (5/sq mi)
• Pop 2006-2011	0.5%
• Dwellings	616
Time zone	AST (UTC-4)
• Summer (DST)	ADT (UTC-3)

Elgin is a Canadian parish in Albert County, New Brunswick.

Delineation

Elgin Parish is situated in the western section of Albert County, New Brunswick and is bordered to the north by Coverdale Parish, to the east by Petitcodiac River and south by Hopewell Parish, and to the west by the Cardwell Parish.

Elgin Parish is defined in the Territorial Division Act as:

History

Albert County: established in 1847 from part of Salisbury Parish, Westmorland County and named for James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811-1862), who was the Governor General of British North America from 1847-1854.

Located 4.3 km ENE of Goshen: Elgin Parish, Albert County: PO from 1852: in 1866 Elgin was a farming settlement with about 36 families: in 1871 Elgin had a population of 250: in 1898 Elgin was a station on the Elgin, Petitcodiac and Havelock Railway with 1 post office, 6 stores, 3 hotels, 1 sawmill, 1 grist mill, 1 tannery, 1 carriage shop, 1 cheese factory and 2 churches.

Communities

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

• Church Hill
• Churchs Corner
• Elgin
• Ferndale
• Forest Hill
• Goshen

• Gowland Mountain
• Harrison Settlement
• Hillside
• Little River
• Mapleton
• Meadow

• Midland
• Parkindale
• Pleasant Vale
• Prosser Brook
• Riverside-Albert
• Ross Corner

Demographics

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1991	933	—
1996	1,027	+10.1%
2001	1,004	−2.2%
2006	973	−3.1%
2011	968	−0.5%

Language

Mother tongue language (2006)

Language	Population	Pct (%)
French only		6.19%
English only		94.33%
Both English and French	0	0.00%
Other languages	0	0.00%

Access routes

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

• Highways
  • Route 910

• Principal Routes
  • None

• Secondary Routes:
  • Route 895

• External Routes:
  • None

See also

• List of parishes in New Brunswick