Saint Patrick Parish, New Brunswick

Historian William F. Ganong believed the name suggested by other Saint names in the area.[9]

Five of the original six mainland parishes of Charlotte County used names of major saints recognised by the Church of England: Andrew (Scotland), David (Wales), George (England), Patrick (Ireland), and Stephen.

Saint Patrick was erected in 1786 as one of Charlotte County's original parishes,[10] including parts of Saint Croix Parish but not all of modern Saint Patrick.

Saint Patrick Parish is bounded:[2][11][12]

• on the north by a line beginning about 300 metres southeast of the junction of Whittier Road, Birneys Lake Road, and Route 770, at the northwestern corner of a grant to Chas. Burns, then running east-northeasterly along the Burns grant and its prolongation to a point about 2.7 kilometres northeast of Bonny River Lake;
• on the east by a line beginning on the prolongation of the rear line of a grant to John Carson, northwest of Sherard Beach, then southerly along the prolongation, the Carson grant, and its prolongation the shore near the western end of Shore Road;
• on the south by Passamaquoddy Bay, Big Bay, and Birch Cove
• on the southwest by the southwestern line of a grant to Francis Welsh, then a line running from the western corner of the Welsh grant to the southwestern corner of a grant to Peter Sime, about midway between the South Glenelg Road and the Frye Road where it meets the southern end of Gibson Lake;
• on the west by a line running northerly along the Sime grant and its prolongation nearly to Route 1, then easterly about 150 metres, then northerly to Bonaparte Lake, then generally northerly along grant lines to Eastman Lake, northeasterly to Twin Lakes, then following the zigzagging western line of a 2500-acre grant to James Allanshaw to a point about 900 metres west of Doyle Lake, on the southernmost corner of a grant to John H. Armstrong;
• on the northwest by a line running northeasterly along the Armstrong grant to its eastern corner, about 1.1 kilometres past the Route 760 bridge over the North Branch Campbell Brook, then northwesterly along the northeastern line of the Armstrong grant and its prolongation to a point near the old railway, about 75 metres south of Wilson Road at the western corner of a grant to Jeremiah Sprague, then northeasterly along the Sprague grant to the Digdeguash River, then downstream about 300 metres to the northern line of a grant to John Strang, then northeasterly to the northern corner of the Strang grant, then southeasterly about 50 metres to the starting point;
• including Hardwood Island, Hospital Island, and any islands closer to shore.

The local service district of the parish of Saint Patrick comprised the entire parish.[18]

The LSD was established in 1970 to assess for fire protection.[19] First aid and ambulance services were added in 1975.[20]

In 2022, Saint Patrick assessed for only the basic LSD services of fire protection, police services, land use planning, emergency measures, and dog control.[21] The taxing authority was 516.00 Saint Patrick.

Communities at least partly within the parish.[11][12][22]

Bodies of water[lower-alpha 2] at least partly within the parish.[11][12][22]

Islands at least partly within the parish.[11][12][22]

Parks, historic sites, and other noteworthy places at least partly within the parish.[11][12][22][23]

• Caughey-Taylor Nature Preserve
• Caughey-Taylor Protected Natural Area
• Ovenhead Protected Natural Area

Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits:[31]

• List of parishes in New Brunswick

45.277544°N 67.068787°W / 45.277544; -67.068787 (Dumbarton Parish, New Brunswick)