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Reference Resources

• Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
• UNB Archives and Special Collections
• New Brunswick Museum
• Voices, Vessels, and Vellum, digital images and text transcriptions of one hundred 18th century documents from the Saint John Free Public Library Primary Source Documents Collection
• NB Commissions of Enquiry, EText Centre, UNB
• eBooks relating to New Brunswick (Canada), DigitalBookIndex
• Seventy years of New Brunswick life : autobiographical sketches, William T. Baird, 1890
• New Brunswick, as a home for emigrants, John Valentine Ellis, 1862
• New Brunswick; with a Brief Outline of Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island: Their History ..., Alexander Monro, 1855
• New Brunswick; with Notes for Emigrants, Abraham Gesner, 1847
• Sketches and Tales illustrative of life in the backwoods of New Brunswick, North America ..., Mrs. F. Beavan, London, 1845
• Notitia of New Brunswick for 1836 and extending into 1837: Comprising historical, geographical, statistical, and commercial notices of the province by an inhabitant, Peter Fisher, Henry Chubb, Saint John, New Brunswick, 1838
• A Subaltern's Furlough. Descriptive of Scenes in Various Parts of the United States, Upper and ..., Edward Thomas Coke, 1833
• A Compendious History of the Northern Part of the Province of New Brunswick ..., Robert Cooney, J Howe, 1832
• Sketches of New Brunswick, Peter Fisher, 1825

Atlases, Maps and Gazetteers

• A Monograph of the place-nomenclature of the Province of New Brunswick, William F. Ganong, J. Durie, 1896
• A monograph of the place-nomenclature of the province of New Brunswick [microform], William F. Ganong, Royal Society of Canada, 1896
• A monograph of the cartography of the province of New Brunswick [microform], William F. Ganong, Royal Society of Canada, 1897
• Atlas of York County, New Brunswick, H. E. Halfpenny, 1878
• Atlas of Saint John City and County, New Brunswick, F. B. Roe and N. Geo. Colby, 1875

Bibliographies

• History of the Book in Canada databases, includes: Bibliography of the History of the Book in Canada; Canadian Book Catalogues; Canadian Book Trade and Library Index; Canadian Imprints; and Canadian Textbooks. Library and Archives Canada

Directories

• Hutchinson Directories, 1865-1868 (New Brunswick)
• Lovell Directory, 1871 (New Brunswick)

Indexes and Abstracts

• Electronic Resources, including Canadian Textbooks and Canadian Book Catalogues, History of the Book in Canada Project
• eBooks relating to New Brunswick (Canada), DigitalBookIndex
• Irish Portal, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
• Newspaper Index, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
• Vital Statistics, RS 141, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
• Death Registration of Soldiers, 1941-1947, RS141C6 Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
• Index to Saint John Burial Permits, 1889-1919, RS315A, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
• Index to Petitions for Teachers' Licences & Payment, 1812-1882, RS655, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
• Index to Justice of the Peace Appointment Register, 1863-1963, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
• Index to Land Petitions: Original Series 1783-1818, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
• Index to Registers of Letters Patent and Supplementary Letters Patent Issued, 1885-1976, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
• New Brunswick Cemetaries, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
• CFB Gagetown Cemetaries, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
• Grantbook Database, 1765-1900, joint project of UNB and the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick

Research Guides and Finding Aids

• Finding Aids, to the historical, literary and university archival material held by the University of New Brunswick Archives
• County Guides, Provincial Archives
• Government Records Finding Aids, Provincial Archives

Serials

• Newspaper Collection: Microform Holdings - Geographical List: New Brunswick, Library and Archives Canada
• New Brunswick Newspaper Directory, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
• Daily Evening News, Saint John, [1883-1884]
• Daily Morning News, Saint John, [1869-1871]
• Daily Sun, Saint John, [1886-1906]
• Fredericton Evening Capital, [1881-1888]
• New Brunswick Reporter, [1844-1886]
• Saint John Gazette and General Advertiser, [1800-1807]
• Saint John Morning News, [1846-1847]
• Acadiensis, tables of contents for [1901-1908]
• Collections of the New Brunswick Historical Society, archive.org
• Literary and Historical Journal, monthly, October 1837
• New Brunswick Magazine, tables of contents for 1898-1899, 1904

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Cities, Towns, and Regions

• Saint John and Its Neighbourhoods: The Past Online
• Diocese of Fredericton: Our History and Buildings, Anglican Church
• History: Miramichi River, Doug Underhill
• Accounts from Miramichi: Miramichi and Middle Island in 1847, the Ships List

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Education

• University Archives and Special Collections, University of New Brunswick
• Historical Sketch, University of New Brunswick
• UNB Honourary Degrees Database, UNB Archives
• The Development of the Theory and Practice of Education in New Brunswick, 1784-1900: A Study in Historical Background, Katherine F.C. MacNaughton, MA Thesis, University of New Brunswick, 1947
• Index to Petitions for Teachers' Licences & Payment, 1812-1882, RS655, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick

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Media and Communications

• Print Culture in the Maritimes (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island): An Overview, the History of the Book in Canada Project

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People and Groups

Collective Resources

• See also: Family History and Genealogical Materials
• See also: Saint John and Its Neighbourhoods: The Past Online : Individuals, Families, and Peoples
• Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
• Biographical review [microform] : this volume contains biographical sketches of leading citizens of the Province of New Brunswick, Isaac Allen Jack
• New Brunswick GenWeb, part of the Canada GenWeb project
• Winslow Papers, University of New Brunswick
• Winslow papers, A.D. 1776-1826, part 1, W. O. Raymond, ed., St. John: Sun Printing, 1901
• Winslow papers, A.D. 1776-1826, part 2, W. O. Raymond, ed., St. John: Sun Printing, 1901
• Benjamin Marston Diary Project, University of New Brunswick
• See also: Finding Aids, University of New Brunswick Archives

Acadians

• La Société des Acadiens et Acadiennes du Nouveau-Brunswick
• Acadian Genealogy, Yvon Cyr
• Musée acadien de l'Université de Moncton

First Nations

• Extracts from Robert Leavitt's Maliseet and Micmac: First Nations of the Maritimes, Aboriginal Affairs Secretariat, New Brunswick
• Maliseet-Passamaquoddy Dictionary, from the Harriet Irving Library, UNB Fredericton

Loyalists

• Loyalist Collection from the Harriet Irving Library, UNB Fredericton
• Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, American Memory Collection, Library of Congress
• The American Loyalists: Or, Biographical Sketches of Adherents to the British Crown in the War of the Revolution, Lorenzo Sabine, Boston: 1847
• The Loyalists in the American Revolution, Claude Halstead Van Tyne, New York: Macmillan, 1902
• The exodus of the loyalists from Penobscot to Passamaquoddy : (with map), Wilbur H. Siebert, Ohio State University, 1914
• Orderly book of the three battalions of loyalists, commanded by Brigadier-General Oliver De Lancey, 1776-1778 : to which is appended a list of New York loyalists in the city of New York during the war of the revolution, New York : Printed for the New York Historical Society, 1917

Irish

• New Brunswick Irish Portal, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick

Planters

• Planter Studies Centre, Acadia University

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Politics and Government

• NB Commissions of Enquiry, EText Centre, UNB
• Government Records Finding Aids, Provincial Archives
• The Legislative Tradition in New Brunswick, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick

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Religion

• Evangelical Church Society of New Brunswick [microform], St. John: 1895
• The Catholic Church in New Brunswick, Knights of Columbus
• Reports of the Diocesan Church Society of New Brunswick, archive.org
• An historical sketch of the first fifty years of the Church of England in the province of New Brunswick (1783-1833) [microform], G. Herbert Lee, Saint John: Sun Publishing, 1880
• Diocese of Fredericton: Our History and Buildings, Anglican Church
• History of the Methodist Church within the territories embraced in the late conference of eastern British America, including Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Bermuda, vols. 1-2, [1877], archive.org

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Science, Medicine, Technology

• Index to Registers of Letters Patent and Supplementary Letters Patent Issued, 1885-1976, Provincial Archives of New Brunswick
• For "the Honor and Dignity of the Profession": Organized Medicine in Colonial New Brunswick, 1793-1860, Peter J. Mitham, Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, 13, 1 (1996)

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Sports and Leisure

• New Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame
• UNB Collection of Sports Photographs, Archives and Special Collections, University of New Brunswick

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Travel, Transportation, Tourism

• See also: Saint John and Its Neighbourhoods: The Past Online
• The Celestial city : Fredericton, New Brunswick and the St. John River for the tourist and sportsman, Frank H. Risteen, Fredericton Tourist Association, 1909
• New Brunswick and its Scenery: a tourists' and anglers' guide to the province of New Brunswick, John R. Hamilton, J&A McMillan, 1874
• The Tour of H.R.H. the Prince of Wales Through British America and the United States, Henry James Morgan, J. Lovell, 1860
• Appletons' New and Complete United States Guide Book for Travellers ..., Wellington Williams, 1851
• A report on New-Brunswick railways to the Chamber of Commerce, St. John, New-Brunswick [microform], John Boyd, 1858
• Map of the lower St. Lawrence, with the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edwards Is. &c. [microform] : showing the several railways and steamship lines connecting with the provinces, n.d.
• New Brunswick Transit Systems, David Wyatt

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