This article is about the town. For the geographic parish, former local service district, and rural census subdivision, see Salisbury Parish, New Brunswick.
Previously a village for 57 years from 1966 to 2023, in January 2023 Salisbury was amalgamated with parts of four local service districts (including the rural community of River Glade) to become a new town with the same name.[2][3]
Salisbury first became a permanent settlement when settlers from Yorkshire, England, settled there in 1774 (History, Village of Salisbury Website).
It grew quickly as a fox farming community, a special mutation of fox with grey/white fur, which was imported, was commonly bred in the many fox farms in Salisbury. This is where the saying "Home of the Silver Fox" comes from. While no fox farms are known to operate locally some wild foxes now share these genes.
The town has elementary, middle, and high schools and an outdoor swimming pool. Several family-owned shops and churches serve the surrounding area. There is also a Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron, 580 A/M Hugh Campbell Squadron.
One of the first acts of the new council was to approve construction of a new fire hall.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, at this time the Village of Salisbury had a population of 2,387 living in 972 of its 996 total private dwellings, a change of 4.5% from its 2016 population of 2,284. With a land area of 13.56 km2 (5.24 sq mi), it had a population density of 176.0/km2 (455.9/sq mi) in 2021.[1]
