New Brunswick Biographies

Online Records

 * Guide to Biographies Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
 * Biographical review: this volume contains biographical sketches of leading citizens of the Province of New Brunswick Jack, I. Allen (Isaac Allen), 1843-1903; Biographical Review Publishing Company (Boston, Mass.)
 * Canadian historical and biographical collection Microfilm of typescripts at the New Brunswick Museum, St. John, New Brunswick. Includes articles on various subjects such as Acadians, Loyalists, Indians, general Canadian history, and biographies. Many of the articles concern the Maritime provinces.
 * Miscellaneous histories and diaries of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick
 * Pre-loyalist biography
 * Biographical Data on New Brunswick Familie Especially of Loyalist Descent, index
 * Biographical Review Province of New Brunswick, Canada, index
 * Irish New Brunswick Biographies, index.
 * New Brunswick Political Biographies

Biographical Dictionaries
You find them in books like A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography being Chiefly Men of the Times (1888) or Prominent People of the Maritime Provinces. By 1922 when this was published, women, though not yet legally ‘persons’, were allotted some twenty entries. As well, the annual editions of The Canadian Who’s Who and its variants, can be a useful source because they usually give the place of birth, names of parents and often earlier lineage, as well as marriage, wife, children and education, offering leads to professional and college directories.

Provincial Archives of New Brunswick (PANB) Website

 * Guide to Biographies Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
 * Guide to Family Histories Provincial Archives of New Brunswick]

Biographies and Directories
Elliot, Noel M., editor, The Atlantic Canadians 1600-1900: An Alphabetized Directory of the People, Places, and Vital Dates, 3 volumes (Toronto, Ontario: Genealogical Research Library, 1994).

Others in this series may prove useful in finding migrating New Brunswickers:

Elliot, Noel M., People of Ontario, 1600-1900: An Alphabetized Directory of the People, Places, and Vital Dates, 3 volumes (London, Ontario: Genealogical Research Library, 1984).

Elliot, Noel M., The French Canadians, 1600-1900: An Alphabetized Directory of the People, Places, and Vital Dates, 3 volumes (Toronto, Ontario: Genealogical Research Library, 1992). Also includes English-speaking Québecers.

Elliot, Noel M., The Central Canadians, 1600-1900: An Alphabetized Directory of the People, Places, and Vital Dates, 3 volumes (Toronto, Ontario: Genealogical Research Library, 1994). Includes Manitoba.

Elliot, Noel M., The Western Canadians, 1600-1900: An Alphabetized Directory of the People, Places, and Vital Dates, 3 volumes (Toronto, Ontario: Genealogical Research Library, 1994). Covers Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, the Northwest Territories, Yukon and Alaska. One source was a 1901 directory listing people in both the Yukon and Alaska during the gold rush.

Hodges, Graham Russell, editor, The Black Loyalist Directory: African Americans in Exile After the American Revolution (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995).

Jack, I. Allen, editor, Biographical Review Province of New Brunswick (Boston: 1900).

Johnson, J.K., editor, The Canadian Directory of Parliament 1867-1967 (Ottawa: Public Archives of Canada, 1968).

O’Byrne, William R., A Naval Biographical Dictionary: Comprising the Life and Services of Every Living Officer in Her Majesty’s Navy (London: 1849). Details of the naval career of every officer alive in 1849.

Prominent People of the Maritime Provinces (St. John, New Brunswick: Canadian Publicity Co., 1922 and 1938).

Rose, Geo Maclean, editor, A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography Being Chiefly Men of the Times (Toronto Ontario: Rose Publishing Company, 1888). Other title: Representative Canadians.

The Social Register of Canada (Montréal: Social Register of Canada, 1958, 1961).

Wallace, W. Stewart, editor, The Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian Biography, 3rd edition (London, Toronto: Macmillan, 1963).

Whyte, Donald, compiler, A Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to Canada Before Confederation, 2 volumes (Toronto: Ontario Genealogical Society, 1986-1995).

Collection New Brunswick Historical Society, Volume, St John, New Brunswick/ The daily Telegraph Steam book and Job Print/ 1894. Lists 200 or so Native Americans from Fort Maductic and supplies delivered to them. And The Medical Men of St John in the First Half Century with the Loyalists who came form New York in 1783. []