Place:Saint Basile, Madawaska (county), New Brunswick, Canada

The town of Saint Basile is located on east side of the St. John River, 7.76 km east-southeast of central Edmundston, on the road to Rivière-Verte in Saint Basile Parish, Madawaska County

The community was settled by Acadians. The first church of the parish, Saint-Basile-le-Grand, was constructed here in 1792. In 1866 St. Basil was a farming community with approximately 58 families, including 11 Cyr families; in 1871 St. Basil and the surrounding district, including river communities, had a population of 1,400. A post office named Upper St. Bazil existed 1852-1910. In 1898 it was a flag station on the Canadian Pacific Railway and a settlement with 1 post office, 2 stores, 1 hotel, 1 church and convent and a population of 250. It changed its name to post office Upper St. Basil 1910-1912, to post office St. Bazil 1912-1938, and to post office St-Basile from 1938. It included the community of Iroquois which had a separate post office 1908-1970. Saint Basile was incorporated as a village in 1966 and later became a town. (Source:Place Names of New Brunswick)

It was amalgamated into the City of Edmundston on May 25, 1998. The 2006 Canadian Census recorded a population of 3751. (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".