The parish was probably named in honour of John Murray Bliss,[5] senior justice of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick at the time the Act erecting the parish[6] was passed in 1834 but died before it became effective in January 1835.
In 1874 Gladstone Parish was erected from the western part of Blissville.[7]
In 1896 the land boundary with Gladstone was completely altered, adding a large area to Blissville; the boundary with Burton was altered along the Nerepis Road.[8]
In 1949 the boundary with Burton was restored to its pre-1896 line.[9]
on the north beginning at a point on the eastern bank of the Oromocto River about 1.2 kilometres downstream of the mouth of Shaw Creek, then running south 66º east[a] to the Queens County line;
on the west by a line beginning at a point on the Charlotte County about 2.9 kilometres west of the South Oromocto Lake Road, then running north 67º east[b] about 19.2 kilometres to the rear line of grants along the western side of the South Branch Oromocto River, then northerly about 2.2 kilometres along the rear line of grants to the northern line of a grant to Nathaniel Hubbard, which is also the southern boundary of Fredericton Junction, then easterly to the river, then down the South Branch Oromocto River and the Oromocto River to the starting point.
Communities
Communities at least partly within the parish;[10][11][12]italics indicate a community expropriated for CFB Gagetown
^By the magnet of 1834,[6] when declination in the area was between 16º and 17º west of north.[13] The Territorial Division Act clause referring to magnetic direction bearings was omitted in the 1952[14] and 1973 Revised Statutes.[2]
^By the magnet of 1896, when declination in the area was about 20º west of north.[13]
^"37 Vic. c. 38 An Act to erect a part of the Parish of Blissville, in the County of Sunbury, into a separate Town or Parish.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick. Passed in the Months of March & April 1874. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1874. pp. 112–113. Available as a free ebook from Google Books.
^"59 Vic. c. 8 An Act to Revise and Codify an Act to Provide for the Division of the Province into Counties, Towns and Parishes.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick. Passed in the Month of March, 1896. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1896. pp. 86–123. Available as a free ebook from Google Books.
^"13 Geo. VI c. 146 An Act to Amend Chapter 2 of the Revised Statutes, 1927, Respecting the Division of the Province into Counties Towns and Parishes, in so far as It Relates to the County of Sunbury.". Acts of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick Passed During the Session of 1949. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1949. p. 468.
^ abcde"No. 137". Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Department of Natural Resources and Energy Development. Retrieved 22 June 2021. Remainder of parish on maps 138, 147, 148, and 155 at same site.
^ abcde"410"(PDF). Transportation and Infrastructure. Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 22 June 2021. Remainder of parish on mapbooks 411, 427–429, 442, 443, 457, and 458 at same site.
^"Chapter 227 Territorial Division Act". The Revised Statutes of New Brunswick 1952 Volume III. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1952. pp. 3725–3771.
