New Brunswick Population Maps

Kings County GenWeb
New Brunswick - Canada

New Brunswick Population Maps
By Christopher Greer

The maps contained on the following pages of this website are reprinted by written permission (electronically) of Acadiensis
Press for use on this site solely. The maps were drafted by Paul Jance, Department of Geography, UBC, for inclusion in
Acadiensis X 2 (Spring 1981) on pages 124-138, an article entitled "Population Patterns in Pre-Confederation New Brunswick,"
introduction to the maps written by Graeme Wynn.

In part of his introduction, Mr. Wynn writes, "For the enumerations of 1785 and 1803, these units were described verbally in the
most general terms; for the censuses of 1824, 1834, 1840, 1851 and 1861, civil parishes were the bases of data collection, but ... their boundaries and areas were often adjusted" (page 124 of the article). For further reading of this article, you may contact
Acadiensis and purchase this volume. Also of interest might be Graeme Wynn's article, "New Brunswick Parish Boundaries in
the Pre-1861 Census Years," Acadiensis VI, 2 (Spring 1977), pp. 95-105.

These maps give us data on how the population of New Brunswick grew, and where it grew, in the pre-Confederation years.
The dots do not represent a concentrated population in that actual spot in many cases but represents an accumulation of 100
persons in that general area. In other words, if you see a dot, representing 100 persons, those persons may live in a scattered
community rather than a town or city. The dots are there simply to represent 100 persons in a relative area.

Population Map for New Brunswick, 1824
Population Map for Kings and Saint John Counties, 1824
Population Map for New Brunswick, 1851
Population Map for Kings and Saint John Counties, 1851
Population Map for New Brunswick, 1861
Population Map for Kings and Saint John Counties, 1861


I would like to thank Acadiensis Press for their kind permission to reprint these maps on the Hammond Parish GenWeb site. This permission does not extend to any further dissemination of this material, and the original copyright of Acadiensis Press remains in force as regards the above articles and any maps included with them with the exception of the premission gained to print the same herein.