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 :
- Bayswater
- Carters Point
- Cheyne Settlement
- Days Landing
- Grand Bay–Westfield
- Hardings Point
- Keatings Corner
- Lands End
- Milkish
- Morrisdale
- Nerepis
- Public Landing
- Sand Point
- Summerville
- Woodmans Point
This is a list of rivers, lakes, streams, creeks, marshes and Islands that are at least partially in this parish
- Kennebecasis Island
- Loch Alva
- Eagle Lake
- Seven Mile Lake
Demographics
Population
Population trend
Census | Population | Change |
2016 | 1,962 | 6.9% |
2011 | 2,108 | 2.7% |
2006 | 2,053 | 3.7% |
2001 | 2,131 | 0.0% |
Language
Mother tongue
Language | Population | Pct |
English only | 1,850 | 94.6% |
French only | 65 | 3.3% |
Both English and French | 5 | 0.3% |
Other languages | 35 | 1.8% |
Access Routes
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