Waterford Parish, New Brunswick

Waterford
Parish
Location within Kings County, New Brunswick.
Coordinates: 45°50′N 64°35′W / 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)

Waterford is a geographic parish in Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada.^[2]

Prior to the 2023 governance reform, for governance purposes it formed the local service district of the parish of Waterford,^[3] which was a member of Kings Regional Service Commission (RSC8).^[4]

The community of Waterford has an active outdoor ice rink (Waterford Youth Centre) as well as a Community Hall that hold events such as paint nights, Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners, Easter parties and more. The area is known for its Skiing and Mountain Biking at Poley Mountain Resorts, hunting, fishing ATVing and other outdoor activities. Some local hotspots include: Friars Nose, Trout Creek Falls, Waterford Falls, Adairs Wilderness Lodge, Parlee Brook Amphitheatre Trail, Urney Covered Bridge and the Moores Mill Covered Bridge.

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

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

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

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^[a] 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^[b] from the mouth of Halfway Brook in Studholm Parish.

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

Bodies of water^[c] at least partly in the parish.^[8][9][10]

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

Population [edit] Population trend[14][15][16] Census Population Change (%) 2016 469 2.4% 2011 458 9.3% 2006 505 2.5% 2001 518 7.3% 1996 559

Language [edit] Mother tongue language (2016)[16] Language Population Pct (%) English only 455 96.8% French only 5 1.1% Both English and French 0 0% Other languages 10 2.1%

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

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

• List of parishes in New Brunswick

45°41′20″N 65°22′21″W / 45.688854°N 65.372515°W / 45.688854; -65.372515 (Waterford Parish, New Brunswick)