Place:Haut Kent, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada

Upper Kent

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Haut Kent (or Upper Kent) is a local service district with a population of approximately 100. It is where The Five Mighty Pillars of Irving stretch across the Saint John River.

Upper Kent was once known for its booming trade industry in potatoes and other local crops, which were shipped by rail from the local station. In the 1950's, Upper Kent was the site of three service stations, three churches, a bus stop, restaurant, dry goods store, general store, hotel, blacksmith's shop, an elementary school, a high school, and was serviced by a Saint John River ferry and daily train and bus service. The construction of the Beechwood hydroelectric dam in the mid 50's, and the flooding of the Beechwood head pond, combined with the relocation of the main highway, resulted in drastic change.

Kent (village) was the original settlement nearby.

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".