Bright Parish, New Brunswick

Bright
Parish
Location within York County, New Brunswick.
Coordinates: 46°11′N 67°06′W / 46.18°N 67.10°W / 46.18; -67.10
Country	Canada
Province	New Brunswick
County	York
Erected	1869
Area [1]
• Land	403.73 km2 (155.88 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[1]
• Total	3,317
• Density	8.2/km2 (21/sq mi)
• Change 2016-2021	0.9%
• Dwellings	1,477
Time zone	UTC-4 (AST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-3 (ADT)

Bright is a geographic parish in York County, New Brunswick, Canada.^[2]

Prior to the 2023 governance reform, for governance purposes it was divided between the local service districts of Keswick Ridge and the parish of Bright,^[3] both of which were members of Capital Region Service Commission (RSC11).^[4]

The parish was named in honour of John Bright, recently appointed British President of the Board of Trade at the time.^[5]

Bright was erected in 1869 from Douglas Parish.^[6]

Bright Parish is bounded:^[2][7][8]

• on the northeast and east by a line beginning on the Carleton County line about 1.5 kilometres northeasterly of Little Forks Brook, then running south 40º east^[a] to the mouth of Howard Brook, then down the Keswick River to the Saint John River;
• on the south and southeast by the Saint John River;
• on the southwest by the central line of a two-lot grant to Jonathan Williams, about 675 metres south of the mouth of Currie Brook, then running northwesterly along the Williams line and its prolongation to the Carleton County line at a point about 600 metres northeasterly of Route 104;
• on the northwest by Carleton County.

Communities at least partly within the parish.^[7][8][10]

Bodies of water^[b] at least partly within the parish.^[7][8][10]

Parks, historic sites, and other noteworthy places at least partly within the parish.^{[7][8][10][11]}

• East Cloverdale Protected Natural Area
• Mactaquac Dam
• Mactaquac Provincial Park^[12]
• Otter Brook Protected Natural Area
• Weyman Airpark

Revised census figures based on the 2023 local governance reforms have not been released.

Population Population trend[13][14][15][16] Census Population Change (%) 2016 3,289 7.2% 2011 3,068 2.9% 2006 3,159 6.8% 2001 2,958 0.2% 1996 2,964 4.0% 1991 2,849 N/A

Language Mother tongue (2016)[16] Language Population Pct (%) English only 3,090 94.1% French only 130 3.9% Other languages 55 1.7% Both English and French 10 0.3%

• List of parishes in New Brunswick

• York Rural Community Project

46°10′48″N 67°06′00″W / 46.18000°N 67.10000°W / 46.18000; -67.10000 (Bright Parish, New Brunswick)