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The area of the parish is 1,240.26 km2 (478.87 sq mi) and the population in 2011 was 501, a decrease of 10.5% from 2006. There were 259 dwellings counted. The population density was calculated at 0.4/km2 (1/sq mi). The population was 1.8% French-speaking and 98.2% English-speaking.
'Wikipedia lists the following settlements in Blissfield parish. Only Doaktown is an incorporated municipality. Those in italics are small and redirected here. Each settlement has a page in Place Names of New Brunswick.
The FamilySearch wiki. This lists the availability of vital statistics indexes for New Brunswick.
New Brunswick GenWeb. A round-up of a lot of genealogical information at the province, county and parish level. Lists of cemeteries and monumental inscriptions can be found here.
The Provincial Archives website titled The Placenames of New Brunswick has maps of all of its parishes and descriptions of some communities within them. This site contains "cadastral" maps for each parish illustrating the grantee’s name for land granted by the province. These maps are cumulative, showing all grants regardless of date.
Microfilm images of all Canadian censuses 1851-1911 are online at Library and Archives Canada, as well as at FamilySearch and Ancestry. The 1921 census appears to be available only at Ancestry.
