Grand Falls Parish, New Brunswick

The parish was named for the waterfall located in the modern town of Grand Falls.[7]

Grand Falls was erected in 1853 from all of Andover Parish north of the Aroostook River and all of Perth Parish north of a line due east from the northwest angle of the Tobique Indian Reserve.[8] The parish included all or most of Denmark, Drummond, and Lorne Parishes, as well as parts of Gordon and Saint-André Parishes.

In 1862 the boundary with Saint-Léonard Parish was altered.[9]

In 1864 part of Grand Falls was included in the newly erected Gordon Parish, which included Lorne Parish.[10]

In 1872 all of Grand Falls east of the Saint John River was erected as Drummond Parish.[11]

In 1913 Grand Falls Parish was legally separated from the town of Grand Falls.[12]

Grand Falls Parish is bounded:[2][13][14][15]

• on the northeast and east by the Saint John River;
• on the south by the Aroostook River;
• on the west by the American border;
• excluding Grand Falls Town.[lower-alpha 1] Grand Falls Town has much smaller boundaries than the municipality of Grand Falls,[16] containing only the Town Plat of Colebrook, which has Everard H. Daigle Boulevard and Harley Hill Street as its northern and southern boundaries and extends almost as far west as the end of Nowlan Street, and the Stewart Grant, which goes north about twice the distance between Everard H. Daigle Boulevard and Avenue 5ième and extends as far back as the junction of Caswell and Coldbrook Streets.

Bodies of water[lower-alpha 2] at least partly in the parish:[13][14][15]

Parish population total does not include portion within Grand Falls

Population Population trend[17][18][1] Census Population Change (%) 2016 1,109 5.4% 2011 1,172 1.3% 2006 1,188 4.0% 2001 1,238 2.2% 1996 1,211 4.4% 1991 1,160 N/A

Language Mother tongue (2016)[1] Language Population Pct (%) English only 700 63.4% French only 385 34.8% Both English and French 20 1.8% Other languages 0 0%

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