Place:Minto, Queens, New Brunswick, Canada

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Minto (2016 pop. 2,305^[1]) is a Canadian village straddling the border of Sunbury County and Queens County, New Brunswick. It is located on the north shore of Grand Lake, approximately 50 kilometres northeast of Fredericton. Its population meets the requirements for "town" status under the Municipalities Act of the Province of New Brunswick, but the community has not made any change in municipal status.

"Just how the name of Minto came to be adopted is said to have occurred in this way. A letter which was sent from Moncton to Mr. Kennedy was enclosed in an envelope which bore the name of the Minto hotel, Moncton. The family thought Minto a good name for their hotel, and so it was named. Then the people generally adopted the name for the place, and so the railway people designated it."

Minto is located on Newcastle Creek, 16.91 km west-southwest of Chipman in Northfield Parish, Sunbury County and Canning Parish in Queens County. It was named for Gilbert John Elliot, 4th Earl of Minto (1845-1914) and governor-general of Canada from 1898-1904. Coal mining has been carried out in this area since the 1760's. Minto had a post office from 1904. In 1904 Minto was the terminus of the Central Railway and a village with 1 post office: There was also a Northfield post office 1857-1923; Newcastle Bridge post office from 1862; Rothwell post office from 1914; South Minto post office 1915-1929; North Minto post office 1924-1969; and New England Settlement post office 1935-1961. Minto was incorporated as a village in 1966. (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".

TO BE REDIRECTED ONCE CORRECT COUNTY IS KNOWN! Northfield South Minto North Minto New England Settlement Rothwell