OR Send Email to
Restigouche Genealogical Society
Or again write Irene Doyle, Secretary of the
Restigouche Genealogical Society
P.O.Box 179
Dalhousie, NB
E0K 1B0

These Returns cannot be borrowed from the Provincial Archives
but may be borrowed from
The National Archives of Ottawa
95 Wellington Street
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0N3

At the National Archives, they are not alphabetized or indexed
They contain names, ages, relationships, occupations, and religion.
And they are available for the following years:
1851, 1861, 1871, 1881, 1891 and 1901

If you should not find a member of the family in the records
who is suppose to be there the year you are looking for
keep looking further, check the index, because at the time of the census
If someone happened to be visiting at the neighbors or down the road
at some friends they were included many times in the family where they were
Specially in the first ones 1851 or 1861..
The men in the lumber camps are all on one page and it is indicated
that they were in a lumber camp
If they were servants in a family it is indicated
they may note the racial origin and entry into the country of a person

Following you will find the information you need to purchase
or borrow these records

Year 1851 The National Archives No.C996 CANB No.F1591

Year 1861 The National Archives No.M558 CANB No.F1606

Year 1871 The National Archives No.C10386 CANB No.F1584

Year 1881 The National Archives No.C13186 CANB No.F1641

Year 1891 The National Archives No.T6303 CANB No.F10918

Year 1901 The National Archives No.T6442-6443 CANB No.F15361-15362

The 1901 and 1911 Canada Census can be found online at
http://www.automatedgenealogy.com

In the future we hope to be able to bring you online
an index of surnames of these census.

This page was designed by Irene Doyle November 1997
Updated March 2006