Acts and Regulations

T-3 - Territorial Division Act

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Divisions of Victoria County
29VICTORIA COUNTY is divided into the several divisions hereinafter named and bounded as follows:
(a) ANDOVER PARISH.- South and west by the County lines; east by the Saint John River and north by the Aroostook River.
(b) DENMARK PARISH.- Westerly and northwesterly by the Saint John River and a line beginning on the eastern bank or shore of the Saint John River at the most southern angle of a tract of land granted to Lyman Whitehead near the mouth of the Salmon River, thence following the southeastern and northeastern sidelines of said tract of land and the southeastern sideline of the John King tract in a northeasterly direction to where it intersects the aforementioned Salmon River, thence following the various courses of the said Salmon River upstream to where it intersects the sideline between lot number one hundred thirty-two (132), granted to Michael Parron and lot number one hundred thirty-four (134), granted to G.C. Poitras in Block fifty-two (52), thence northeasterly along the last mentioned sideline and its prolongation to the southwest line of lot number seventeen (17) in Range Three (3), thence northwesterly to the most westerly angle of said lot seventeen (17), thence northeasterly along the base line of said lot and its prolongation to the southwesterly line of the first tract of land granted to the New Brunswick Railway Company, thence northwesterly along the line of the said tract to the point where the prolongation of the most easterly boundary line of the Fourth Tract of the said New Brunswick Railway Company land meets the said southwesterly line of the First Tract aforesaid, thence northeasterly along the said prolongation of the most easterly boundary of the Fourth Tract, the said most easterly boundary itself, and the further prolongation thereof to the southwesterly limit of Restigouche County; northeasterly by Restigouche County; easterly by Lorne and Gordon Parishes; and south by Perth Parish.
(c) DRUMMOND PARISH.- West by the Saint John River and Madawaska County, northeasterly by Restigouche County; easterly by Lorne Parish and southerly by Denmark Parish; except that portion thereof which is within the limits of the Town of Grand Falls.
(d) GORDON PARISH.- Southerly and southeasterly by Carleton and York Counties; easterly by Northumberland County; north by a line run true east and west from the foot of Long Island, in the Tobique River; and westerly by a line commencing at a point where the Royal Road intersects the line between the counties of Carleton and Victoria; and running along the said Royal Road northerly to a point eight miles north of the Tobique river; thence a course north forty-five degrees east, until it strikes the north boundary of the parish.
(e) GRAND FALLS PARISH.- South by Andover Parish; north and east by the Saint John River; and west by the County line, except that part of the area contained within the above limits which is included in (80a).
(f) GRAND FALLS TOWN.- The area contained within the town of Grand Falls as bounded and described in section 1 of the Act 53 Victoria c. 73, as follows: “The Town plat of Colebrooke (so called) and the Stewart grant (so called) in the Parish of Grand Falls, and the Mill lease of the War Department lands (so called) in the Parish of Drummond.”
(g) LORNE PARISH.- Northeasterly and northerly by Northumberland and Restigouche Counties; south by Gordon Parish; and northwesterly by the prolongation to the county of Restigouche of the line forming the northwesterly boundary of Gordon Parish, which runs a course north forty-five degrees east from the point on the Royal Road eight miles north of the Tobique River.
(h) PERTH PARISH.- West by the Saint John River; north by a line run true east from the northwest angle of the Tobique Indian Reserve; east by Gordon Parish; and south by the County line.
R.S., c.227, s.29