Place:Whites Cove, Queens, New Brunswick, Canada

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NameWhites Cove
TypeCommunity
Coordinates45.867°N 66.067°W
Located inQueens, New Brunswick, Canada
See alsoCambridge (parish), Queens, New Brunswick, Canadaparish in which it was located

Whites Cove is located on the east side of Grand Lake, 5.36 km northeast of Jemseg, on the road to Mill Cove in Cambridge Parish, Queens County, New Brunswick. Vincent White and William White were Loyalist settlers here:

Whites Cove had a post office 1857-1959 with George M. White as the first postmaster. In 1866 Whites Cove was a farming community with approximately 64 families, including the families of Samuel V. White, John S. White, Thomas White and William White. In 1871 it had a population of 200. In 1898 Whites Cove was a farming settlement with 1 post office, 1 store, 1 church and a population of 100. (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".