Robertville, New Brunswick

Robertville
Unincorporated community
Robertville Location within New Brunswick.
Coordinates: 47.697778°N 65.765833°W / 47.697778; -65.765833
Country	Canada
Province	New Brunswick
County	Gloucester
Parish	Beresford
Electoral Districts    Federal	Acadie—Bathurst
Provincial	Restigouche-Chaleur
Government
• Type	Local service district
Time zone	UTC-4 (AST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-3 (ADT)
Postal code(s)	E8K
Area code	506
Highways	Route 322

Robertville is an unincorporated community and former local service district in Gloucester County, New Brunswick, Canada.

Situated northwest of the outskirts of Bathurst, it is mostly surrounded by forest. Among other communities in the surroundings are Beresford, Petit Rocher, Nigadoo, North Tetagouche, South Tetagouche, Pointe Verte, and Rough Waters.

Education

The elementary school of Robertville is École La Croisée de Robertville ("La Croisée" is French for "The Crossing", referring to the four corners intersection where the school is situated and was named by a student (Jason Mansour) after he won a contest to find the school a name).
French speaking people from Robertville (and the surroundings) generally go to École Secondaire Népisiguit (ESN - The French Highschool) in the City of Bathurst, and the few English people from Robertville (and the surroundings, predominantly in Bathurst) go to Bathurst High School (BHS).

History

Established in 1884 by a Roman Catholic priest by the name of François-Antoine Robert, its residents are predominantly francophone.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Robertville had a population of 969 living in 388 of its 394 total private dwellings, a change of 3.4% from its 2016 population of 937. With a land area of 5.64 km² (2.18 sq mi), it had a population density of 171.8/km² (445.0/sq mi) in 2021.

See also

• List of communities in New Brunswick