- source: Family History Library Catalog
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Waterborough Parish established in 1786: Waterborough Parish included Canning Parish until 1827, a portion of Chipman Parish until 1835 and Cambridge Parish until 1852. Grand Lake covers a considerable area of the parish.
The entire parish forms the local service district of the parish of Waterborough, established in 1966 to assess for fire protection. First aid and ambulance services were added in 1972.
Established 1786
Area[1]
• Land 444.87 km2 (171.77 sq mi)
Population (2011)[1]
• Total 851
• Density 1.9/km2 (5/sq mi)
• Pop 2006-2011 Decrease 4.7%
• Dwellings 791
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Cox Point
Cumberland Bay
Cumberland Point
Grant Settlement
Mill Cove
New Dominion Road
Pangburn
Rees
The Range
Union Settlement
Waterborough
Youngs Cove
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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