Place:Tabusintac, Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada

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NameTabusintac
Alt namesTabusintac New Brunswick Canada
TypeCommunity
Coordinates47.327°N 65.011°W
Located inNorthumberland, New Brunswick, Canada
See alsoAlnwick, Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canadaparish in which it was located

Tabusintac is a small community (an unincorporated area) in Northumberland County in the Canadian province of New Brunswick. It is situated on the north side of Miramichi Bay

Located 3.12 km SW of Wishart Point, on the road to Covedell: Alnwick Parish, Northumberland County: William Francis Ganong identified the Mi'kmaq name for Tabusintac as Taboosimkik or "a pair of them": The Acadians called the area Taboujamteck: PO Tabisintac 1840-1857: PO Tabucintac 1857-1931: in 1866 Tabusintac was a farming, fishing and lumbering community with 60 resident families: in 1871 it had a population of 400: in 1898 Tabusintac had 1 post office, 2 stores, 2 hotels, lobster canning factories, 1 church and a population of 350: PO Tabusintac from 1931. (Source:Place Names of New Brunswick)

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  • 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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