Caraquet Parish, New Brunswick


Caraquet is a civil parish in Gloucester County, New Brunswick, Canada.

Delineation

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

Governance

The northern mainland of the parish is divided between three municipalities; from east to west, these are the village of Bas-Caraquet, the town of Caraquet, and the eastern part of the village of Bertrand. The remainder of the parish consists of four LSDs and part of a fifth. These LSDs are:
  1. Grants in the southwestern corner of the parish, along Thériault, Lavigne, and Haché Roads, containing more than five thousand acres.
  2. Wetlands along Ruisseau à Isaac and Ruisseau à Jules.
  3. Ten grants between the mouth of the Saint-Simon River and the southwestern corner of Bas-Caraquet, containing about nine hundred acres.
  4. A small area on the southern bank of the Saint-Simon River where the Caraquet boundary cuts through a peninsula, containing less than five acres.
  5. Munro Island
  6. Caraquet Island

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