Place:Mount Pleasant, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada

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NameMount Pleasant
Alt namesVictoria Settlementsource: former name of community
TypeCommunity
Coordinates46.403°N 67.49°W
Located inCarleton, New Brunswick, Canada
See alsoPeel, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canadaparish in which it was located
source: Family History Library Catalog

NOTE: There are five small communities in New Brunswick named Mount Pleasant. The others are in other counties.


Mount Pleasant is located 5.12 km W of Windsor, on the road to Lansdowne in Peel Parish, Carleton County It had a post office 1877-1930 and was originally called Victoria Settlement. In 1866 Mount Pleasant was a farming settlement with about 22 families. By 1898 Mount Pleasant had 1 post office, 1 store, 1 church and a population of 200. (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".