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T-3 - Territorial Division Act

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Divisions of Restigouche County
26RESTIGOUCHE COUNTY is divided into the several divisions hereinafter named and bounded as follows:
(a) ADDINGTON PARISH.- West by Eldon Parish; north by the Province of Quebec; south by the Northumberland County line; and east by a line running true south from the most eastern point of the western side of the mouth of Walkers Brook, including all the islands in front in the Restigouche River which belong to this Province.
(b) BALMORAL PARISH.- West by Addington Parish; north by Dalhousie Parish; south by Northumberland County line, and east by the southern prolongation of the eastern line of Dalhousie Parish.
(c) COLBORNE PARISH.- West by Dalhousie and Balmoral Parishes; south by the County line; east by a line running true south from the mouth of Benjamin River, and north by Chaleur Bay including Heron Island and all the other islands in front.
(d) DALHOUSIE PARISH.- West by Addington Parish, north by the Restigouche River; east and south by a line beginning on the east side of Eel River Gully, at the forty-eight mile post placed on the great road leading from Bathurst to Dalhousie, thence running true south to the southwest limit of Lot Number Five, fronting on Chaleur Bay, granted to Sebastian Doucett, thence in a northwesterly direction following the southwest limits of Lots Numbers Five, Four, Three, Two and One, and said limits of Lots Letters “O”, “N”, “M”, “L” and “K” to the most westerly angle of the last mentioned lot; thence in a northeasterly direction along the northwest limit of said lot to the most easterly angle of the 100 acre lot granted to Archibald Chisholm; thence in a westerly, southerly, westerly and southerly direction following the bounds of said lot to the southeast angle of Lot Number Five, Eel River Crossing, granted to William Searls; thence in a westerly direction along the south limit of said lot and its prolongation to the east limit of Lot Number Seventy-two, Range One, Balmoral, granted to Robert Good; thence in a northerly direction along said limit to the northeast angle of said lot; thence in a westerly direction along the northern limit of Range One, Balmoral, to the Addington Parish Line, including all the islands in front.
(e) DURHAM PARISH.- East and south by the County lines; west by Colborne Parish, and north by Chaleur Bay including all the islands in front.
(f) ELDON PARISH.- Northerly by the Province of Quebec Boundary line, easterly by a line beginning on the southern bank or shore of Restigouche River at the northwest angle of lot number twenty-two, granted to George Firth below Metapedia, thence southerly along the western line of said lot and its prolongation to the northeast angle of lot number one, in Dawsonville, thence continuing southerly along the eastern line of said lot number one and its southern prolongation, to the southeast angle of lot number two (Thomas Gracie) and thence true south to the County limits; southerly by the County line and westerly by a straight line extending from the Province of Quebec Boundary line in the Restigouche River, at the mouth of Upper Thorn Point Brook to Whites Brook railway station on the Canadian National Railways, and thence prolonged southerly to the Victoria County Boundary line.
(g) GRIMMER PARISH.- Southerly by the southern boundary line of lot number twenty-five, granted to Paul Berube, in Range 6, Rang-Double-Sud, and the prolongation of said boundary line easterly to the Parish of Eldon, and westerly to a point on the bank or shore of the Restigouche River. West by a straight line drawn due north astronomically from the said last-mentioned point to the southern boundary line of the Province of Quebec. Northerly by said Province and easterly by the Parish of Eldon.
(h) SAINT-QUENTIN PARISH.- On the north by the Parish of Grimmer and the Province of Quebec; on the west by the Province of Quebec; on the southwest by the Counties of Victoria and Madawaska, and on the east by the Parishes of Grimmer and Eldon.
R.S., c.227, s.26; 1956, c.64, s.2