Glenelg is a geographic parish in Northumberland County, New Brunswick, Canada. For governance purposes it is divided between the city of Miramichi, the village of Nouvelle-Arcadie, and the Greater Miramichi rural district. Miramichi and the rural district are members of the Greater Miramichi Regional Service Commission, while Nouvelle-Arcadie belongs to the Kent RSC. Prior to the 2023 governance reform, the parish was divided between Miramichi and the local service districts of Black River-Hardwicke, St. Margarets, and the parish of Glenelg.

Origin of name

The parish was named in honour of Charles Grant, one of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury when the parish was erected. Grant was entitled as a Lord Commissioner to be addressed as Lord, and chose to be titled Baron Glenelg, of Glenelg in the County of Inverness when raised to the peerage in 1835.

History

Glenelg was erected in 1814 from Newcastle Parish. The southwestern line was further east, along the prolongation of a line about 300 metres west of Harper Road in Miramichi. Glenelg contained almost all of Hardwicke Parish until 1852 and the Rosaireville area of Rogersville Parish until 1900.

Boundaries

Glenelg Parish is bounded:

Evolution of boundaries

The original western line of Glenelg was the southeasterly prolongation of the southwestern line of Chatham Parish, which ran about 300 metres west of Harper Road along the southwestern line of a grant to William McCallum, to what is now the Kent County line; the northwestern line ran up the Napan River to meet the southwestern line. In 1850 the southwestern and northwestern lines were changed to their modern positions. This exchanged several small pieces of territory along the Napan River with Chatham and added a strip of Nelson Parish along the southwestern line, which included part of what's now the Rosairville area. In 1852 the eastern part of Glenelg was erected as Hardwicke Parish. In 1900 an area south of the Bay du Vin River was transferred to Rogersville Parish, taking Rosaireville and the Richard Settlement east of it.

Communities

Communities at least partly within the parish. bold indicates an incorporated municipality

Bodies of water

Bodies of water at least partly in the parish.

Other notable places

Parks, historic sites, and other noteworthy places at least partly in the parish.

Demographics

Parish population total does not include portion within Miramichi

Population

Population trend

Language

Mother tongue (2016)