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Douglas Harbour is located on the west side of Grand Lake, 4.29 km east-northeast of Scotchtown in Canning Parish in Queens County, New Brunswick. The historian, William Francis Ganong, identified the Maliseet name for Douglas Harbour as Skumcook. It had a post office 1851-1918 and 1926-1967. In 1866 Douglas Harbour was a farming settlement with about 28 families; in 1871 the community and surrounding district had a population of about 200. In 1898 Douglas Harbour had 1 post office, 1 store and a population of 100.
It was orginally called Keyhole Harbour for its narrow entrance and circular harbour. It was renamed Douglas Harbour for Sir Howard Douglas who was compelled to take refuge here during a heavy storm while boating on the lake (The Daily Sun, Saint John, August 5, 1884). (Source:Place Names of New Brunswick)
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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