Place:Pleasant Villa, Queens, New Brunswick, Canada

Pleasant Villa is located on the Otnabog Stream, 9.36 km south of Gagetown in Hampstead Parish in Queens County, New Brunswick. It included the communities of Otnabog and Queenstown

The historian, William Francis Ganong, identified the Maliseet name for Otnabog as Wednee'bak. Otnabog Post Office existed 1854-1893; in 1871 Otnabog had a population of 100. It also included Upper Otnabog which had a post office 1876-1911; in 1898 Upper Otnabog was a farming settlement with 1 post office, 1 church and a population of 100. Post Office Pleasant Villa existed 1911-1933. (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".