An explanation on Madawaska churches from Albert's History of Madawaska, courtesy of George Findlen (findleng@tds.net):

Saint Léonard started out as Saint Léonard de Port Maurice: chapel in the 1840's or so with register starting in 1854 and becoming stand-alone (i.e., having its own priest) around 1867. Saint Léonard-Ville [Saint Antoine de Padue] got its own chapel around 1881, becoming stand-alone circa 1921. Sometime afterwards, the bishop exchanged the two church names, making the parent church "Saint Antoine de Padue" and making the daughter church, which had now become the much larger one, "Saint Léonard de Port Maurice".

In almost all of the remaining areas of Madawaska, each community is named after its church.

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The following church records (mostly birth and marriage records) in Madawaska County have been microfilmed, and are available at the Provincial Archives:

• Parish registers (1925-1993, indexed), Baker Brook
• Parish registers (1889-1993, indexed), Clair
• Parish registers (1935-1993), Connors
• Cathedrale Immaculée Conception (Roman Catholic), Edmundston
• Notre-Dame-de-Sept-Douleurs(1938-1993, indexed), Edmundston
• Notre-Dame-de-Sacre-Coeur(1950-1993 ), Edmundston
• St. André Parish Records (1903-1920), Edmundston
• Ste. Anne Parish Records (1872-1920), Edmundston
• St. Joseph's Parish Records (1919-1920), Edmundston
• Notre-Dame-des-Prodiges Parish Records (1915-1920), Kedgwick
• Parish registers (1886-1991, indexed), Lac Baker
• Parish registers (1792-1850), Madawaska
• Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes registers (1914-1993)
• Parish registers (1923-1992, indexed), Rivière Verte
• Parish registers (1903-1993 , indexed), St.-André
• Parish registers (1872-1987 , indexed), Ste.-Anne
• Parish registers (1806-1975 , indexed), St.-Basile
• Parish registers (1950-1993), St.-George’s
• St. Francis-Xavier Parish registers (1859-1989), St.-Francois
• Parish registers (1892-1989, indexed), St.-Hilaire
• Parish registers (1880-1990 , indexed), St.-Jacques
• Parish registers (1919-1993), St.-Joseph
• St. Francis Xavier Parish registers (1859-1920), St.-Léonard
• St.-Antoine de Padoue Parish registers (1854-1921 ), St.-Léonard
• St.-Léonard-Parent Parish registers (1854-1976, indexed), St.-Léonard
• St.-Léonard-Ville Parish registers (1924-1950, indexed), St.-Léonard
• St. Paul's Church (Presbyterian), Edmundston