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The village of Clair is located on east side of the St. John River, 7.55 km east of Saint François de Madawaska, on the road to Caron Brook in Clair Parish, Madawaska County.
Among the first settlers was Peter Clair (1817-1902), who was originally from County Clare, Ireland. It had a post office known as Middle St. Francis 1867-1892. In 1871 it had a population of 60. It was renamed Clair from 1892. In 1898 Clair was a port of entry, a station, called Clair's Station, on the Témiscouata Railway and a community with 1 post office, 3 stores, 1 hotel, 1 sawmill, 1 church and a population of 200: Clair was incorporated as a village in 1966. (Source:Place Names of New Brunswick)
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".
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