Harcourt Parish, New Brunswick

Harcourt is a geographic parish in Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada.

[4] For governance purposes it is divided between the village of Five Rivers in along part of the eastern boundary,[5] the village of and Grand Lake along Route 116 on the western boundary,[6] with the Kent rural district comprising the remainder.

[a] The parish was named in honour of Earl Harcourt, a Field Marshal of the British Army at the time of its erection[9] and a friend and frequent correspondent of Lieutenant Governor Howard Douglas.

[10] Harcourt was erected from unassigned territory south of the Richibucto River in 1827,[11] comprising a much shallower parish than today.

The wording of existing legislation implicitly adds the annexed area to Harcourt.