Place:Canning (parish), Queens, New Brunswick, Canada

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Name	Canning (parish)
Alt names	Back Road	source: small settlement in parish
	Clarks Corners	source: small settlement in parish
	Flowers Cove	source: small settlement in parish
	Lake Road	source: small settlement in parish
	Maquapit Lake	source: small settlement in parish
	Princess Park	source: small settlement in parish
	Scotchtown	source: small settlement in parish
	Sunnyside Beach	source: small settlement in parish
	Syphers Cove	source: small settlement in parish
	Wuhr's Beach Road	source: small settlement in parish
Type	Parish
Coordinates	45.97°N 66.09°W
Located in	Queens, New Brunswick, Canada (1827 - )

:the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia

Canning Parish was separated from Waterborough Parish in Queens County, New Brunswick in 1827. It was named for the Right Honourable George Canning, (1770–1827) who was prime minister of the United Kingdom. It included part of Chipman Parish until 1835.

The area of the parish is 173.40 km2 (66.95 sq mi) and the population in 2011 was 952, an increase of 0.2% from 2006. There were 836 dwellings counted. The population density was calculated at 5.5/km2 (14/sq mi). In 2006 the population almost 95% English-speaking with most of the rest French-speaking.

'Wikipedia lists the following settlements in Canning parish. Only Minto is an incorporated municipality. Those in italics are small and redirected here. The others have their own pages in WeRelate. The Newcastles have been grouped together under Newcastle Centre. Each settlement has a page in Place Names of New Brunswick.

Back Road	Maquapit Lake	Scotchtown
Canning	Minto (incorporated village)	Sunnyside Beach
Clarks Corners	Newcastle Bridge (see Newcastle Centre)	Syphers Cove
Douglas Harbour	Newcastle Centre	Upper Gagetown
Flowers Cove	Newcastle Creek (see Newcastle Centre)	Wuhr's Beach Road
Lake Road	Princess Park

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New Brunswick Provincial Archives. This is the introductory page. The tabs will lead you to more precise material.
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.
The CanGenealogy page for New Brunswick. An overview of available online sources with links written by Dave Obee.
More possibilities can be found by googling "New Brunswick province family history" and investigating the results.
The word "rencensement", found in Sources, is French for "census".