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Iron Ore Hill is a rural community in Wakefield parish of Carleton County, New Brunswick, Canada, 5 kilometers northwest of Woodstock.
The community is located on the slopes of Iron Ore Hill, named from deposits of iron ore and manganese located in the area. The deposit was discovered in 1836. Iron was mined near here from 1848 to 1884. A reported 70,000 tons iron ore was smelted during that time. The iron produced was transported to the Woodstock Iron Works to be smelted.
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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