Place:Milltown, Charlotte, New Brunswick, Canada

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NameMilltown
TypeCommunity
Coordinates45.177°N 67.297°W
Located inCharlotte, New Brunswick, Canada
See alsoSaint Stephen, Charlotte, New Brunswick, Canadaparish in which it was located
St. Stephen, Charlotte, New Brunswick, Canadatown with which it amalgamated in 1973
Contained Places
Cemetery
Milltown Roman Catholic Cemetery
source: Family History Library Catalog


Milltown used to be a separate settlement southwest of Saint Stephen, but the two joined together in the 1970s under the name Saint Stephen.

Milltown was the site of a large textile factory from 1882 until 1957. The textile factory benefitted from a local hydro-electric generating station, the Milltown Dam. Electricity continues to be generated by the Milltown Dam and is exported to the United States where it is consumed in Calais in Maine. (Source: Wikipedia)

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".