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Northwest Bridge is a community located at the Canadian National Railway bridge spanning the Northwest Miramichi River, 3.92 km SSW of Newcastle, on the road to Derby Junction. Northwest Bridge is in Newcastle Parish, Northumberland County, but is also considered part of [[Place:Derby (parish), Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada|Derby Parish in the same county. Northwest Bridge was formerly called Bridgetown: North West Bridge Post Office existed 1861-1968. In 1898 Northwest Bridge was a lumbering and farming community with 1 post office, 1 store, 1 sawmill and a population of 300. It was merged into the town of Newcastle and is now within the city of Miramichi. (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".
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