Lac Baker Parish, New Brunswick
Lac Baker is a civil parish in Madawaska County, New Brunswick, Canada. For governance purposes it is divided between the village of Lac Baker and the incorporated rural community of Haut-Madawaska, both of which are members of the Northwest Regional Service Commission (NWRSC). Origin of name The parish takes its name from Baker Lake, which takes its name from John Baker, an American leader in the Aroostook War. Baker remained in the area after the boundary settlement awarded the area to New Brunswick. History Lac Baker was erected as Baker Lake in 1912 from Clair Parish; the boundary was slightly altered later that year. The parish was renamed Lac Baker and its boundaries affected by the major reorganisation of Madawaska County parish lines in 1946. Boundaries Lac Baker Parish is bounded: on the northwest by the Quebec provincial border; on the northeast and east, running entirely along grant lines, beginning on the provincial border at the eastern line of a grant on the eastern side of Lac Baker and running southeasterly along the Lac Baker grants to the northwestern line of Range Five of the Nadeau Settlement, near Baker-Brook River, then northeasterly to the northeastern line of Range Five, then