Place:Saint François de Madawaska, Madawaska (county), New Brunswick, Canada

Saint François de Madawaska is now an incorporated village located on east side of the St. John River, 7.55 km W of Clair, on the road to Pelletiers Mill in Saint François Parish, Madawaska County. It included Webster's Creek which had a post office 1857-1874 with Augustin Webster as first postmaster. In 1866 Webster's Creek was a farming community with about 22 resident families; in 1871 it had a population of 100. The community also included Winding Ledges which was named for the rapids in the St. John River. Winding Ledges had a post office 1874-1900. in 1898 Winding Ledges was a flag station on the Témiscouata Railway (called Ledges) and a settlement with 1 post office, 2 stores, 1 grist mill, 1 cheese factory, 1 church and a population of 200. In 1866 St. François was a farming community with about 35 families. The post office St-François-de-Madawaska existed from 1900. Saint-François-de-Madawaska was incorporated as a village in 1966. (Source:Place Names of New Brunswick)

In the Canadian census of 2011 Saint François de Madawaska had a population of 553. (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".