List of Counties of New Brunswick

This is a list of the counties in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, with county seats (known in the province as shire towns) in parentheses.

Before New Brunswick was partitioned from Nova Scotia, it consisted of Cumberland and Sunbury Counties. Counties were at the top of a three-layer local government system. Below each county were parishes (townships), Some, but not all, parishes were then further subdivided into municipalities. The exception to this was the municipality of Saint John which was not in a parish but was a sub-division of Saint John County.

With the New Brunswick Equal Opportunity program in 1966, county councils were abolished. Counties continue to be used as an organizational unit, along with parishes, for registry of real-estate and to some extent taxation thereof. They figure prominently in residents' sense of place and continue as significant threads in the Province's cultural fabric (i.e., most citizens always know which county they are in). They still appear on most maps.

  • Albert County, New Brunswick, formed in 1845 from part of Westmorland County (Hopewell Cape) and a small part of Saint John County
  • Carleton County, New Brunswick, formed in 1833 from part of York County (Woodstock)
  • Charlotte County, New Brunswick, one of the original 8 counties (St. Andrews)
  • Gloucester County, New Brunswick, formed in 1826 from part of Northumberland County (Bathurst)
  • Kent County, New Brunswick, formed in 1814 from part of Northumberland County (Richibucto)
  • Kings County, New Brunswick, one of the original 8 counties (Hampton)
  • Madawaska County, New Brunswick, formed in 1873 from part of Victoria County (Edmundston)
  • Northumberland County, New Brunswick, one of the original 8 counties (Newcastle, now part of Miramichi)
  • Queens County, New Brunswick, one of the original 8 counties (Gagetown)
  • Restigouche County, New Brunswick, formed in 1837 from part of Gloucester County (Dalhousie)
  • Saint John County, New Brunswick, one of the original 8 counties (Saint John)
  • Sunbury County, New Brunswick, one of the original 8 counties (Burton)
  • Victoria County, New Brunswick, formed in 1837 from part of Carleton County (Perth-Andover)
  • Westmorland County, New Brunswick, one of the original 8 counties (Dorchester)
  • York County, New Brunswick, one of the original 8 counties (Fredericton)

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