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Saint André is located 5.7 km south-southeast of Saint Amand and 5.7 km north-northwest of Grand Falls in Saint André Parish, Madawaska County. It included Chambord, which was named for the French nobleman, Henry V, Comte de Chambord (1820-1883). The post office was named Chambord from 1884 until 1912. In 1898 Chambord was a community with 1 post office, 1 store and a population of 150. The post office was renamed PO St-André-de-Madawaska from 1912. Saint André was incorporated as a village in 1967. (Source:Place Names of New Brunswick)
Saint André is a potato farming area. In the 2011 census of Canada it had a population of 819. (Source: Wikipedia)
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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