This article is about the geographic parish, former local service district, and rural census subdivision. For the community, see Douglas, New Brunswick.
Douglas was erected in 1824 from Queensbury and Saint Marys Parish;[6] the new parish included parts of modern Bright and Stanley Parishes and extended north only as far as the Nashwaak River. The boundary with Queensbury was adjusted in 1835, moving up the Saint John and running along a different angle in the interior.[7]William Francis Ganong's map of 1836 parish boundaries shows a much smaller parish than today.[8]
In 1837–38 the interior north of the Keswick River and South Branch Dunbar Stream was included in the original Stanley Parish, dissolved a year after it was erected.[9][10] This put settlements along the modern Route 620 in Stanley.
In 1842 the parish was extended west to Southampton Parish, adding part of Queensbury to Douglas but also affecting unassigned lands.[11] The northern boundary was unmentioned, implicitly extended upstream along the Nashwaak River.
In 1845 the first of a half-dozen boundary changes among the islands in the Saint John River took place.[12] While most of these changes took place in the nineteenth century, it was 1973 before the modern boundary was finalised.[13]
In 1847 the holdings of the New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Land Company and unassigned lands to the north were erected as a new Stanley Parish,[14] establishing the southern part of the modern boundary with Douglas. In 1850 the unassigned area to the north of the Nashwaak River and west of Stanley was added to Douglas,[15][a] an area sparsely inhabited even today.
In 1869 part of Douglas along the length of its southwestern boundary was erected as Bright Parish.[16]
In 1952 a narrow strip of land along the eastern border was removed when the Revised Statutes updated the Territorial Division Act's boundary for Fredericton;[17] the earlier annexation of Devon by Fredericton did not affect the parish lines in the TDA. The 1973 enlargement of Fredericton created the same situation, with the city's municipal boundaries extending into Douglas Parish but not the boundaries listed in the TDA.[13]
on the northeast and east by a line beginning on the Carleton County line at a point about 7 kilometres east of McKiel Lake, then running south[b] to the northeastern corner of a grant to Isaac Woodward Jouett, which is on the southern side of the Mick Road, then generally southerly following the eastern line of grants along the Currieburg Road and Route 620 to the South Branch Dunbar Stream, then downstream about 1.85 kilometres to meet the western line of Saint Marys Parish, then south[c] about 10 kilometres to the eastern line of a grant to Daniel Sawyer, about 2.3 kilometres west of Route 148, then southeast[c] about 5 kilometres, partly along the southwestern line of the Devon 30Indian reserve, to meet the prolongation of Douglas Avenue, then along the prolongation and Douglas Avenue itself to the Saint John River;[d]
on the south by the Saint John River;
on the west and southwest by a line running up the Keswick River to the mouth of Howard Brook, then running north 40º west[e] to the Carleton County line;
on the northwest by the Carleton County line;
including Keswick, Mitchells, Upper Shores, and Lower Shores Islands and part of Sugar Island roughly north and west of the Baseline Road.
Communities
Communities at least partly within the parish.[18][19][24]bold indicates an incorporated municipality; italics indicate a name no longer in official use
^The same consolidation added the remaining unassigned parts of the province to existing parishes, mainly in York County.
^By the magnet of 1846,[20] when declination in the area was slightly more than 18º west of north.[21] The Territorial Division Act clause referring to magnetic direction bearings was omitted in the 1952[22] and 1973 Revised Statutes.[2]
^ abBy the magnet of 1850,[23] when declination in the area was between 18º and 19º west of north.[21]
^The Territorial Division Act uses the pre-1973 boundaries of Fredericton; the modern municipal boundaries extended further west.
^By the magnet of 1869, when declination in the area was between 19º and 20º west of north.[21]
^ ab"Chapter T-3 Territorial Division Act". Revised Statutes of New Brunswick 1973 Volume IV. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1973. pp. 1–70. The original printed version is cited separately to distinguish it from the edited version available online.
^"32 Vic. c. 49 An Act to erect part of the Parish of Douglas, in the County of York, into a separate Town or Parish.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick. Passed in the Month of April 1869. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1869. pp. 94–95. Available as a free ebook from Google Books.
^"Chapter 227 Territorial Division Act". The Revised Statutes of New Brunswick 1952 Volume III. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1952. pp. 3725–3771.
^ abcde"No. 83". Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development. Retrieved 25 June 2021. Remainder of parish on maps 92–94, 102–104, 113, 114, 125, and 126 at same site.
^ abcde"242"(PDF). Transportation and Infrastructure. Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 25 June 2021. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 243, 258, 259, 274, 275, 289–291, 306–309, 326–328, 347–350, 369, and 370 at same site.
^"Chapter 227 Territorial Division Act". The Revised Statutes of New Brunswick 1952 Volume III. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1952. pp. 3725–3771.
^"13 Vic. c. 51 An Act to consolidate all the Laws now in force for the division of the Province into Counties, Towns and Parishes.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Mjaesty's Province of New Brunswick, Passed in the Year 1850. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1850. pp. 142–152, 145–149. Book was poorly proofread, resulting in title typo and reuse of page numbers 145–152.
