county of New Brunswick
Enable an agent to recognise a county of New Brunswick, establish its dated territorial extent, and use county references without inferring governmental powers from geographic membership.
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6 bundles · 11 layers · 17 findings · 32 questions
County identity Establish what counts as an instance of this registered kind and how its names resolve.
Territorial kind
Separate the county category from individual counties and neighbouring place types.
County recognition
Use the county provisions of the Territorial Division Act as an identity reference; the Act separately organises counties and parish divisions. [Territorial Division Act](https://laws.gnb.ca/en/tdm/cs/T-3?mode=detail)
- Does the registry's originating record denote the class of New Brunswick counties rather than a particular place? definition
- Which territorial provision identifies the candidate county for the requested date? provenance
County name resolution
Resolve language variants, historical references and names shared with settlements.
Attested names and identifiers
Attach each name and identifier to the county entity it actually denotes, with language and source-specific scope.
- Which English and French county names are attested by the relevant authorities? provenance
- Does a Saint John reference denote the county, the city or another named feature? boundary
- Which verified gazetteer identifiers resolve to the county rather than its namesake settlement? provenance
County boundary evidence Connect territorial descriptions to usable spatial representations.
Territorial description
Identify the instruments and geographic references that define the county limit.
Boundary authority and interpretation
Record the issuer, applicable text, effective date and interpretation of each boundary segment without treating a map as self-authenticating.
- Which provision or amendment supports each disputed or uncertain county boundary segment? provenance
- How does the applicable description treat rivers, islands, shorelines and connections to neighbouring county limits? boundary
- If sources disagree, which authority or claimant supports each interpretation and for what date? boundary
Published county geometry
Make spatial calculations reproducible through dataset and CRS identification.
Geometry fitness
GeoNB publishes county boundary data and identifies NAD83(CSRS), NB Stereographic Double, EPSG:2953 as its georeferencing; verify the actual downloaded release before using it. [GeoNB counties catalogue](https://www.gnb.ca/en/campaign/geonb/data-catalogue/counties.html)
- Which county boundary release, CRS and transformation history support this geometry? provenance
- What land and water coverage convention produces the reported county area? measurement
- What positional uncertainty should qualify county assignment for a point near the boundary? measurement
County territorial relationships Represent the county's territorial hierarchy and intersections with other New Brunswick geographies.
County-parish hierarchy
Establish dated relationships between the province, counties and geographic parishes.
Parish membership
Record parish membership through territorial evidence and keep geographic parishes distinguishable from census subdivisions.
- Which geographic parishes belong to this county at the requested date? boundary
- Which evidence distinguishes each geographic parish from any similarly named statistical or municipal unit? definition
Local governance overlays
Resolve intersections with municipalities, rural districts and regional service commission areas.
Territory versus service area
Use dated spatial and institutional links rather than deriving service responsibility from county membership.
- Which local governance areas intersect the county under the relevant boundary releases? boundary
- Which organisation and governing instrument must be consulted for the specific service or permission requested? action
County continuity Track county identity through territorial changes and changes in institutional function.
Historical territory
Distinguish changes to county territory from corrections to its mapped representation.
Dated county versions
Link establishment, renaming and boundary changes to evidence while preserving separate geometry revision dates.
- What evidence establishes the county's creation and subsequent territorial changes? provenance
- Does a difference between two maps represent a territorial change, a survey correction or cartographic generalisation? boundary
County functions over time
Keep the territorial county separate from organisations and powers associated with it at particular dates.
Institutional function evidence
Require dated evidence for county governmental, electoral, judicial or archival functions instead of importing assumptions from counties in other jurisdictions.
- Which county-associated institutions or functions existed at the date of the record being interpreted? provenance
- Which instrument ended, transferred or retained each relevant function? provenance
- Where should an agent direct a present-day request concerning a former county function? action
County statistical and location use Support defensible joins, location assignments and comparisons using county geography.
Census correspondence
Connect territorial counties to Statistics Canada geography without erasing source distinctions.
Vintage-specific census link
Statistics Canada's SGC 2021 lists New Brunswick census divisions with type County; treat this as a dated crosswalk requiring identifier and geometry checks. [SGC 2021: New Brunswick](https://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p3VD.pl?CLV=2&CPV=13&CST=01012021&CVD=1346785&Function=getVD&MLV=4&TVD=1346772)
- Which census division identifier and census vintage correspond to this county? provenance
- Do the census and provincial county representations differ in shoreline treatment, extent or effective date? boundary
- What geographic reconciliation is required before comparing county statistics across vintages? action
County assignment decisions
Use county evidence to resolve locations while preserving unresolved edge cases.
Reproducible location assignment
Return the county assignment together with the input date, geographic evidence and boundary uncertainty relevant to the decision.
- Does the supplied coordinate or historical locality resolve unambiguously to one county under the chosen dated representation? boundary
- When a location falls on an uncertain county edge, should the agent return multiple candidates or request more precise evidence? action
Evidence and external alignment What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.
Reported evidence
Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.
Check these first
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these check these first hold for the sense of county of New Brunswick this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Identifiers and schemes
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these identifiers and schemes hold for the sense of county of New Brunswick this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Standards and regulation
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of county of New Brunswick this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Real-world use
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of county of New Brunswick this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Failure modes and hazards
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of county of New Brunswick this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Regional variation
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of county of New Brunswick this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart
Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.
- Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of county of New Brunswick this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.PLC
What it is Filled
A county of New Brunswick is one of the Canadian province's 15 named territorial divisions, historically used for local administration and retained as a geographic and statistical reference.
In scope
- County identity, English and French names, historical names and verified external identifiers
- Territorial definitions and their effective dates
- County geometry, coordinate reference system, extent and boundary uncertainty
- Relationships to New Brunswick, geographic parishes and neighbouring counties
- Dated correspondence with census divisions and local governance geographies
Out of scope
- New Brunswick as a province and its governmental organisation
- Municipal governments, rural districts and regional service commissions as institutions
- Residents, households and demographic processes
- Land parcels, ownership and cadastral title
- Indigenous nations, treaty rights and traditional territories as independently defined entities
- Individual settlements and their internal infrastructure
Why it exists Filled
Enable an agent to recognise a county of New Brunswick, establish its dated territorial extent, and use county references without inferring governmental powers from geographic membership.
Distinguishing features Filled
- A candidate must be identifiable as a New Brunswick county through territorial evidence, rather than merely having County in its name.
- A county reference must distinguish the territorial place from a same-named municipality or settlement, especially Saint John.
- A county is distinguished from its geographic parishes by its position in the territorial division hierarchy.
- A matching census division name or code establishes a statistical correspondence for a particular vintage, not unrestricted identity across datasets and dates.
- County membership alone does not establish which organisation supplies services, issues permits or exercises a particular power.
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Present a county as a current government with powers it no longer has.
- Mix county boundaries from different dates without saying so.
- Use the county for legal or service decisions where other units now apply.
Only with a human decision
- Using county data in decisions on public services or funding.
May
- Use county names and boundaries for geographic and statistical reference, citing the year.
- Note that counties no longer serve as units of local government in the province.
Moral aspects Filled
- Accurate territory data supports fair services and records for residents.
- Place names carry the history of Indigenous, Acadian and settler communities.
Who is affected
- Residents
- Researchers and genealogists
- Indigenous and Acadian communities
Owners Filled
Steward
The provincial government that defines its territorial divisions.
Master systems
- Provincial land registry and geographic names records
- National statistics geographic files
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q2991484 - registry parent class
- Q3111821 - registry parent class
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.county-of-new-brunswick
- Wikidata: Q603715 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q603715)
Direct properties required Filled
- County designation: Authority-attested county name with language, name status and validity interval
- Provincial containment: New Brunswick, Canada; dated territorial relationship
- Territorial standing: Attested for the requested date, historical, proposed or unresolved
- Boundary representation: Polygon or multipolygon linked to publisher, release, legal basis, CRS and effective date
- Surface area: km² with land-only or total-area convention, geometry vintage and calculation method
- Geographic parish membership: Dated links to geographic parishes with supporting territorial provisions
- Census division correspondence: Statistics Canada identifier, classification vintage and verified correspondence type
- Boundary agreement: Consistent, representational mismatch, asserted dispute or unassessed; affected segment and sources
Recognition required Filled
- On an authoritative administrative map, a county is identified by its county name and a boundary enclosing its territory.
- A map legend or geographic hierarchy distinguishes county boundaries from municipal and parish boundaries, which represent different territorial units.
- The landscape alone does not reliably reveal a county boundary.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- Resolve a county name in a dated address or archival record to an evidenced county identity.
- Assign a coordinate to a county using a specified boundary release and report ambiguity near its edges.
- Retrieve the territorial provision and published geometry supporting a county boundary.
- Cross-reference a county with census divisions, parishes and local governance areas for a specified date.
- Compare boundary versions and flag changes that affect geographic assignments or statistical comparisons.
- Identify the separate organisation whose authority must be checked before a requested local action.
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Wrong attribution of records, such as land or civil records, to the wrong county.
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- The Territorial Division Act, enacted by the Legislature of New Brunswick, defines the province's division into counties and parishes.
- The Standard Geographical Classification, issued by Statistics Canada, identifies New Brunswick counties as census divisions for statistical reporting.
Context of use required Filled
- New Brunswick counties are used in geographic descriptions, historical research, genealogy and statistical reporting.
- County references help locate records and compare areas over time, but do not by themselves identify a current local government or service provider.
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q603715: county of New Brunswick - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: List of counties of New Brunswick - general description of the item
Open questions
- Does the originating registry record confirm that county of New Brunswick denotes a class, and which Wikidata or gazetteer record anchors that interpretation?
- Which current and historical instruments establish county functions and the effective dates of their transfer or termination?
- What is the latest authoritative county geometry release, its documented positional accuracy and its treatment of water and islands?
- Which English, French and historical county names and external identifiers have been independently verified?
- Are there documented county boundary disputes or unresolved differences between territorial descriptions, GeoNB geometry and census representations, and who asserts each interpretation?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q603715/spec.json