Gloucester County (2021 population 78,256) is located in the northeastern corner of New Brunswick, Canada.New Brunswick Provincial Archives - Gloucester County Fishing, mining and forestry are the major industries in the county. The eastern section of the county is known for its Acadian culture. The county is named for Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh.
Census subdivisions Communities There are 19 municipalities within the county. They are listed below by 2016 population: Official name Designation Area km2 Population Parish Bathurst City92.0411,897Bathurst Tracadie-Sheila Town (dissolved)24.655,171 Saumarez Beresford Town19.414,288 Beresford Caraquet Town68.354,248 Caraquet Shippagan Town10.022,580 Shippagan Petit-Rocher Village4.521,897 Beresford Belledune Village189.471,417 Beresford Bas-Caraquet Village31.011,305 Caraquet Lamèque Town12.511,285Shippagan Bertrand Village57.441,166 Caraquet Nigadoo Village7.65963Beresford Grande-Anse Village24.33899New Bandon Pointe-Verte Village13.79886Beresford Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël Village15.90879Shippagan Le Goulet Village5.49793Shippagan Saint-Isidore Village22.94764Saint-Isidore Paquetville Village9.26720 Paquetville Saint-Léolin Village19.73647 New Bandon Maisonnette Village12.90495 New Bandon
First Nations There is one First Nations reservation in Gloucester County (listed with 2016 population): Official name Designation Area km2 Population Parish Pabineau 11 Reservation4.92134Bathurst
Parishes The county is subdivided into ten parishes (listed by 2016 population): Official name Area km2 Population Municipalities Unincorporated communities Saumarez326.786,618Tracadie-Sheila (town) Benoit / Charnisay / Commeau / Ferguson Point / Gauvreau / Haut-Sheila /Leech / Little Gaspereau / Losier Settlement / Petit-Tracadie / Pointe-à-Bouleau /Pont-Lafrance / Rivière-à-la-truite / Saint Irénée and Alderwood / Saint-Isidore Station / Saint-Pons /Saumarez / St. Pierre / Tracadie Beach / Val-Comeau Beresford456.866,248 Beresford (town)Petit-Rocher (village)Belledune (village)Nigadoo (village)Pointe-Verte (village) Alcida and Dauversière / Dempsey Settlement / Devereaux / Dunlop / Free Grant / LaPlante /Lincour / Madran / Massabielle / Nicholas-Denys / Robertville / Saint-Laurent / Sainte-Louise /Sainte-Rosette / Sormany / St. George / Tremblay / Val-Michaud Shippegan208.084,800 Shippagan (town)Lamèque (town)Le Goulet (village)Ste-Marie-St-Raphaël (village) Cap-Bateau / Chiasson-Savoy / Coteau Road / Haut-Lamèque / Haut-Shippagan / Herring Point /Miscou Centre / Miscou Harbour / Miscou Lighthouse / Miscou Plains / Petite-Lamèque /Petite-Rivière-de-l'lle / Petit-Shippagan / Pigeon Hill / Pointe-Alexandre / Pointe-Brûlé /Pointe-Canot / Sainte-Cécile / Shippagan Portage / Wilson Point Bathurst1504.87 4,797 Bathurst (city)Pabineau 11 (reservation) Bartibog Station / Bathurst Mines / Big Antler / Big Moose / Big River / Blue Mountain Settlement /Bruce / Brunswick Mines / Chamberlain Settlement / Goodwin Mill / Gloucester Junction /Hachey Siding / Lawson Brook Siding / Miller Brook / Nepisiguit Junction / North Tetagouche /Ottawa Road / Pitre Road / Red Pine / Rio Grande / Russell / Salmon Beach /South Tetagouche / Tetagouche Hill / Upper Rosehill Inkerman107.562,366 Boudreau Road / Cowans Creek / Evangeline / Four Roads / Gaspereau / Haché Road /Haut Pokemouche / Inkerman / Inkerman Ferry / Landry / Maltampec / Pokemouche /Pokemouche Junction / Sainte-Rose-Gloucester / Six Roads Paquetville220.512,329 Paquetville (village) Burnsville / Notre-Dame-des-Érables / Petit-Paquetville / Rang-Saint-Georges /Saint-Amateur / Trudel / Val-Doucet Allardville654.692,032 Allardville / Allardville East / Veniot / Bear Landing / Beaubois / Butte-d'Or / Daulnay /Goodwin Mill / Jeanne-Mance / Saint-Sauveur Saint-Isidore173.251,361 Saint-Isidore (village) Bois-Blanc / Bois-Gagnon / Boishébert / Duguayville / Hacheyville / Haut-Saint-Isidore /Haut Tilley Road / Pokemouche Landing / Pont-Landry / Spruce Brook / Tilley Road Caraquet109.971,337 Caraquet (town)Bas-Caraquet (village)Bertrand (village) Blanchard Settlement / Caraquet Island / Haut-Saint-Simon / Marsoliau / Pokesudie /Saint-Simon / Saint-Simon Centre New Bandon359.111,214Grande-Anse (village)Maisonnette (village)Saint-Léolin (village) Anse-Bleue / Bertrand Station / Black Rock / Canobie / Clifton / Dugas / Janeville /Johnson / Lobster Beach / New Bandon-Salmon Beach / Pokeshaw / Rocheville / Springfield /Stonehaven / Village-des-Poirier / Village-Saint-Paul / Waterloo Settlement
Demographics
As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Gloucester County had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
Language Canada Census Mother Tongue - Gloucester County, New Brunswick Census Total Year Responses Count Trend Pop % Count Trend Pop % Count Trend Pop % Count Trend Pop % 64,890 1.0% 84.20% 10,795 2.8% 14.01% 810 8.0% 1.05% 220 44.3% 0.28% 64,270 1.4% 84.00% 11,105 0.5% 14.51% 745 19.2% 0.97% 395 41.5% 0.52% 65,210 4.7% 83.95% 11,165 8.9% 14.37% 625 26.0% 0.80% 675 206.8% 0.87% 68,440 5.0% 83.71% 12,255 9.5% 14.99% 845 8.3% 1.03% 220 6.4% 0.27% 72,060 n/a 83.19% 13,545 n/a 15.64% 780 n/a 0.90% 235 n/a 0.27%
Access Routes Highways and numbered routes that run through the county, including external routes that start or finish at the county limits:Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas
Highways
Principal Routes
Secondary Routes:
Secondary Routes (cont):
External Routes: None
Protected areas and attractions
Notable people
See also List of communities in New Brunswick Royal eponyms in Canada
References
External links
Gloucester County Guide