Place:West Isles, Charlotte, New Brunswick, Canada

the text in this section is based on an article in Wikipedia West Isles is a parish in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada which includes Deer Island and numerous smaller islands. The West Isles Parish was established in 1786 to include Deer Island and adjacent islands: West Isles Parish included Campobello Parish until 1803 and Grand Manan Parish until 1816. The islands are part of the Fundy Islands. The entire parish forms the local service district of the parish of West Isles, established in 1970 to assess for fire protection. First aid and ambulance services were added in 1982 and recreational facilities in 1987. The LSD is often called Deer Island for it is the only inhabited island. The area of the parish is 38.01 km2 (14.68 sq mi) and the population in 2011 was 731, a decrease of 11.3% from 2006. There were 485 dwellings counted. The population density was calculated at 19.2/km2 (50/sq mi). The population was more than 97% English-speaking. The Charlotte County Archives in St. Andrews is a collection of thousands of original documents reflecting various individuals, groups, and businesses who have contributed to the social, cultural, economic and political life of Charlotte County, 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".