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Balmoral Parish, New Brunswick

parish in New Brunswick, Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ3365776 ↗
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Balmoral is a geographic parish in Restigouche County, New Brunswick, Canada.

For governance purposes it is divided between the city of Campbellton, the town of Heron Bay, the village of Bois-Joli, the Moose Meadows 4 Indian reserve, and the Restigouche rural district, all of which are members of the Restigouche Regional Service Commission.

Before the 2023 governance reform, along Route 275 beginning near the eastern parish line and running southwest to the western parish line were the village of Balmoral, the local service district of Blair Athol, and the village of Atholville, with the LSD of Balmoral-St. Maure along the southern boundary of Balmoral; small areas in the northeastern corner were part of the villages of Eel River Crossing and Charlo, and the remainder of the parish formed the LSD of the parish of Balmoral, often called Balmoral-Maltais to distinguish it from Balmoral-St. Maure. The reform amalgamated Balmoral, Balmoral-St. Maure, Blair Athol, and parts of the parish LSD along the Boissonault, Drapeau and Saint-Maure Roads with Eel River Crossing and areas neighbouring it to form Bois-Joli; Campbellton annexed part of the parish LSD along the southern side of McAbbie Road, Heron Bay annexed two areas of the parish LSD along the eastern parish line, and the remainder of the parish LSD became part of the rural district.

Origin of name

The parish may have gotten its name from Balmoral Castle, Scotland, increasingly used by Queen Victoria at the time. William F. Ganong had no idea of its origin, noting only that there was a place of that name in Scotland.

History

Balmoral was erected in 1896 from Dalhousie Parish.

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This entry incorporates text from “Balmoral Parish, New Brunswick” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.