Place:Centreville, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada

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Centreville is an incorporated village in Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada. Statistics Canada reported the population to be 542 in 2011, a 3.6% increase from the 2006 population of 523. The village was incorporated in 1966 having previously been part of Wicklow parish. It is located only two miles from the border of Maine, US, at the Bridgewater crossing.

Centreville is a local service district serving small communities such as Knoxford, Williamstown and Tracey Mills which are just outside the village. This is also a large farming community.

Centreville was first founded by Thomas Johnston, who immigrated to New Brunswick from Ireland in 1821. In October 1896 construction of a railroad was started but was stopped due to funding two months later. In October 1912 construction of the rail road was resumed and completed on October 1, 1914.

Centreville received its first telephone line in 1894 connecting it with the town of Woodstock. It was not until 1902 that lines were added to the surrounding areas. Electricity came to Centreville in 1924.

Today, Centreville produces trailers for the agriculture, construction, forestry and commercial industries and also customised fire trucks and farm equipment for the lumbering and agricultural industries of the surrounding area.

Research Tips

• 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".