Figures do not include the village of Grand Manan, which includes all of the parish other than White Head Island
Confusion is sometimes caused by other uses of the name: epenthesis of Grand Manan Island to Grand Manan; the village of Grand Manan; the census subdivision of Grand Manan Parish, which includes only White Head Island; and the assumption of an LSD with the name of Grand Manan, which never existed.
Origin of nameedit
The parish takes its name from Grand Manan Island, which is often shortened to Grand Manan. Ganong gives the origin of the island's name as Mun-aa-nook', his transcription of the locative form of the Passamaquoddy word for island, combined with the French adjective grand used on some early French maps of the area.[4]
Historyedit
The parish was erected in 1816 from West Isles Parish as Grand-Manan, to include "Grand-Manan with its appurtenances".[5]
The hyphen was dropped from the name in 1850[6] and appurtenances was clarified in 1877,[7] implicitly adding Machias Seal Island to the parish.[a]
Boundariesedit
Grand Manan Parish includes the main island and all islands to the south and west.[2][8][9]
Municipalityedit
The village of Grand Manan was formed in 1995[10] and includes all of the parish except White Head Island.[11]
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^Ganong, William F. (1896). A Monograph of the Place-Nomenclature of the Province of New Brunswick. Royal Society of Canada. p. 237. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
^"56 Geo. III c. 10 An Act to constitute the Island of Grand-Manan and its appurtenances in the County of Charlotte into a distinct Town or Parish.". Acts of the General Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New-Brunswick. Passed in the Year 1816. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1816. p. 28. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
^"13 Vic. c. 51 An Act to consolidate all the Laws now in force for the division of the Province into Counties, Towns and Parishes.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Mjaesty's Province of New Brunswick, Passed in the Year 1850. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1850. pp. 142–152, 145–149. Retrieved 27 March 2021. Book was poorly proofread, resulting in title typo and reuse of page numbers 145–152.
^"Chapter 2 The Division of the Province into Counties, Towns, and Parishes.". The Consolidated Statutes of New Brunswick. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1877. pp. 56–85. Available as a free ebook from Google Books.
^ abcde"No. 167". Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development. Retrieved 3 July 2021.
^ abcde"504" (PDF). Transportation and Infrastructure. Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 3 July 2021. Remainder of parish (excluding Machias Seal Island) on mapbooks 505–508 at same site.
^"2020 Local Government Statistics for New Brunswick" (PDF). Department of Environment and Local Government. p. 55. Retrieved 6 February 2021.
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