Place:Rivière Verte, Madawaska (county), New Brunswick, Canada

Rivière Verte is located on east side of the St. John River, 6.25 km northwest of Prime in Sainte Anne Parish, on the road to Saint Basile. Since 1935 it has been within Rivière-Verte Parish, Madawaska County.

William Francis Ganong identified the Maliseet name for Rivière-Verte as Quumquaa'took. Its post office was known as Green River 1864-1907. In 1866 Green River was a farming community with about 70 families, including 10 Martin and 9 Theriault families. In 1871 Green River and the surrounding district had a population of 700. In 1898 Green River was a station on the Canadian Pacific Railway and a settlement with 1 post office, 1 store, 1 hotel, 1 sawmill, 1 grist mill and a population of 200. It included the community of Bellefleur (Post Office Bellefleur existed 1884-1906), the settlement of Lynch (Post Office Lynch existed 1907-1910 with Mary A. Lynch as first postmaster) and the community of Green River Station: (Post Office Green River Station existed 1906-1935. The village and the post office were renamed Rivière-Verte in 1935. Rivière-Verte was incorporated as a village in 1966. (Source:Place Names of New Brunswick)

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Rivière-Verte (2006 population: 798) is a village in Rivière-Verte Parish in Madawaska County, New Brunswick.

It is located 15 kilometres southeast of Edmundston along the Saint John River and the Rivière Verte. The village was named Green River prior to 1935 when the parish was established.

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".