Queens County, New Brunswick

**Queens County** (2021 population 10,998) is located in central New Brunswick, Canada. The county shire town is the village of Gagetown.

## Geography

The Saint John River and Grand Lake are major landmarks in the county. Coal mining is a major industry in the Minto area.  Forestry and mixed farming are found throughout the rest of the county.  The CFB Gagetown military training area takes in a large portion of the western part of the county.

### Communities

There are four municipalities within Queens County (listed by 2021 population):
|Official Name|Designation|Area km<sup>2</sup>|Population|Parish||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Minto|Village|align="right"|31.36|align="right"|2,234|align="center"|Canning|
|Chipman|Village|align="right"|19.00|align="right"|1,201|align="center"|Chipman|
|Gagetown|Village|align="right"|49.32|align="right"|787|align="center"|Gagetown|
|Cambridge-Narrows|Village|align="right"|106.79|align="right"|715|align="center"|Cambridge|

- Part of Minto lies within Sunbury County, but since most of it is in Queens County, Statistics Canada considers it as part of Queens.

### Parishes

The county is subdivided into ten parishes (listed by 2021 population): The parishes do not include the municipalities within them.
|Official Name|Area km<sup>2</sup>|Population|Municipalities|Unincorporated communities||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Canning|align="right"|173.25|align="right"|1,028|align="center"|Minto (village)|Back Road / Canning / Clarks Corners / Douglas Harbour / Flowers Cove / Lake Road / Maquapit Lake / Newcastle Center / Newcastle Centre / Newcastle Creek / Princess Park / Scotchtown / Sunnyside Beach / Sypher Cove / Upper Gagetown / Wuhr's Beach Road|
|Chipman|align="right"|483.45|align="right"|853|align="center"|Chipman (village)|Briggs Corner / Bronson / Bronson Settlement / Camp Wegesegum / Castaway / Coal Creek / Dufferin / Fowlers Corner / Gaspereau Forks / Harley Road / Iron Bound Cove / Kings Mines / Leckey Road / Midland / Redbank / Salmon Creek / Salmon River / The Ridge / Upper Gaspereau|
|Waterborough|align="right"|443.16|align="right"|903|align="center"||Cox Point / Cumberland Bay / Cumberland Point / Grant Settlement / Mill Cove / New Dominion Road / Pangburn / Rees / The Range / Union Settlement / Waterborough / Youngs Cove|
|Petersville|align="right"|589.95|align="right"|710|align="center"||Bayard / Blagdon / Clarendon / Enniskillen / Fowlers Corners / Petersville / Welsford / Wirral / Wirral Station / Wirral-Enniskillen|
|Cambridge|align="right"|113.17|align="right"|684|align="center"|Cambridge-Narrows|Cherry Hill / Jemseg / Lower Cambridge / Lower Jemseg / Robertson Point / Scovil / Whites Cove|
|Johnston|align="right"|360.87|align="right"|638|align="center"||Annidale / Bagdad / Canaan Rapids / Chambres Corner / Codys / Coles Island / Highfield / Johnston / Long Creek / Partridge Valley / Phillipstown / Salmon Creek / Smith Corner / Thornetown / Washademoak / Waterloo Corner / Youngs Cove Road|
|Wickham|align="right"|160.54|align="right"|409|align="center"||Bald Hill / Belyeas Cove / Big Cove / Carpenter / Crafts Cove / Henderson Settlement / London Settlement / MacDonalds Point / Shannon / Wickham|
|Gagetown|align="right"|234.58|align="right"|324|align="center"|Gagetown (village)|Coytown / Mill Road / Upper Gagetown|
|Hampstead|align="right"|212.39|align="right"|288|align="center"||Central Hampstead / Elm Hill / Hampstead / McAlpines / Pleasant Villa / Quarries / Queenstown|
|Brunswick|align="right"|703.20|align="right"|224|align="center"||Alward / Brookvale / Brunswick / Canaan Forks /  Cherryvale / Forks Stream / Hunters Home / New Canaan|

### Language

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|||||10,170|5.3%|94.08%||385|13.5%|3.56%||70|75.0%|0.65%||170|13.3%|1.57%|
|||||9,655|5.3%|93.83%||445|11.0%|4.32%||40||0.39%||150|15.4%|1.46%|
|||||10,195|2.9%|93.83%||500|18.0%|4.60%||40|27.3%|0.37%||130|56.7%|1.20%|
|||||10,495|3.4%|91.58%||610|17.3%|5.32%||55|37.5%|0.48%||300|46.3%|2.62%|
|||||10,870|4.7%|93.43%||520|23.0%|4.47%||40|0.0%|0.34%||205|57.7%|1.76%|
|||||11,410|n/a|93.10%||675|n/a|5.51%||40|n/a|0.37%||130|n/a|1.01%|

## Other websites

- Queens County Guide

## Infobox (settlement)

- **name**: Queens
- **settlement type**: List of counties of New Brunswick, County
- **image map**: Map of New Brunswick highlighting Queens County.png
- **map caption**: Location within New Brunswick.
- **seat type**: County seat, Shire town
- **seat**: Gagetown, New Brunswick, Gagetown
- **subdivision type**: List of sovereign states, Country
- **subdivision name**: Canada
- **subdivision type1**: Provinces and territories of Canada, Province
- **subdivision name1**: New Brunswick
- **established title**: Established
- **established date**: 1785
- **area land km2**: 3681.05
- **population as of**: 2021
- **population total**: 10,998
- **population density km2**: 3.0
- **population blank1 title**: Change
<small>2016–2021</small>
- **population blank1**: 5.0%
- **population blank2 title**: Dwellings
- **population blank2**: 6,854
- **timezone**: Atlantic Standard Time Zone, AST
- **utc offset**: −4
- **timezone dst**: Atlantic Standard Time Zone, ADT
- **utc offset dst**: −3
- **area code**: Area code 506, 506