Westfield Parish, New Brunswick


Westfield is a civil parish in Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada. For governance purposes it is divided between the town of Grand Bay-Westfield and the local service district of the parish of Westfield, which is further divided into the taxing authorities of Westfield East and Westfield West, which are sometimes erroneously described as LSDs in their own right.

History

Westfield Parish created in 1786: possibly named for the town of Westfield in Massachusetts.

Delineation

Westfield Parish is defined in the Territorial Division Act as being bounded:

Communities

Parish population total does not include incorporated municipalities :
This is a list of rivers, lakes, streams, creeks, marshes and Islands that are at least partially in this parish

Population

Population trend
CensusPopulationChange
20161,9626.9%
20112,1082.7%
20062,0533.7%
20012,1310.0%

Language

Mother tongue
LanguagePopulationPct
English only1,85094.6%
French only653.3%
Both English and French50.3%
Other languages351.8%

Access Routes

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