Our Genealogy Helper
Introduction ...
We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:
- That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
- We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
- On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.
By learning about New Canada (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.
As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for New Canada. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.
Neighboring Counties ...
When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.
For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals and doctors were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.
So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived: their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.
If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.
New Canada is located in Aroostook County.
To see how the shape of Maine's counties may have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Aroostook County: Penobscot, Piscataquis, Somerset & Washington.
Below are the counties that are near New Canada. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to New Canada:
- Aroostook County (The home county of New Canada)
- The following are listed by their distance from New Canada, with the one closest to New Canada listed first.
- Soldier Pond
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Wallagrass
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Wallagrass is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallagrass
- Population from the 2020 Census: 520 people
- Eagle Lake
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Winterville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the south)
- Winterville is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winterville
- Fort Kent Mills
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- Quimby
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Quimby is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Quimby
- Winterville Plantation
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
- Winterville Plantation is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Winterville Plantation
- Population from the 2020 Census: 205 people
- Fort Kent
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Sinclair
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northeast)
- Fort Kent Village
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the northwest)
- Fort Kent Village is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fort Kent Village
- Upper Frenchville
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Upper Frenchville is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Frenchville
- Saint John Plantation
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Saint John Plantation is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint John Plantation
- Population from the 2020 Census: 248 people
For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to New Canada, see our County-by-County Page for New Canada.
Cemeteries Near New Canada ...
Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of New Canada.
This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.
Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for New Canada - one of the links might be able to help.
If not found below, our Cemetery List for New Canada covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.
The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from New Canada, with the one closest to New Canada listed first.
- Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery is located in Soldier Pond.
- The Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery has also been known as:
- St. Joseph RC Church Cemetery
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2382341 <2>
- St. Josephs Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- St. Joseph Catholic Church Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- St. Josephs the Helper Cemetery
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- St. Marys Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Holy Family Cemetery
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Longfellow Cemetery
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the southwest)
- St. Etropus Cemetery
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the east)
- Congregational Cemetery
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the north)
- St. Louis Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- St. Louis Catholic Cemetery
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for St. Louis Catholic Cemetery
- To give a relative sense of its location, the St. Louis Catholic Cemetery is a large cemetery that is located in Fort Kent.
- The St. Louis Catholic Cemetery has also been known as:
- Old St. Louis Cemetery
- St. Louis Cemetery Old
- Jump to Find-A-Grave: FG ID #2393985 <2>
- St. Josephs Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the east)
- Continue List (55 more) ...
- St. Luce Catholic Cemetery
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Baker Brook Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- St. Agatha Lower Cemetery
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
Nearby Communities in 1895 ...
We've built the following list with information that came from an Atlas published by Rand McNally in 1895. The Atlas had details such as the population of the community (which appears to have come from the 1890 Census) and whether there was a post office and/or railroad service available. We also indicate if the community no longer exists and is now historic.<3>
While we didn't find New Canada in the Atlas, the following 1895 communities would have been found near the current location of New Canada.
These communities are listed based on their distance from New Canada, with the one closest to New Canada listed first.
- Wallagrass
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northwest)
- Wallagrass is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallagrass
- Population from the 2020 Census: 520 people
- Eagle Lake
(5 miles [8 km] to the southwest)
- Fort Kent
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Upper Frenchville
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Upper Frenchville is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Upper Frenchville
- Frenchville
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Jemtland
(18 miles [29 km] to the east)
- Jemtland is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jemtland
- Saint Francis
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Saint Francis is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Francis
- Population from the 2020 Census: 439 people
- Saint David
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the northeast)
- New Sweden
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Perham
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southeast)
- Portage
(23 miles [37 km] to the south)
- Acadia
(23 miles [37 km] to the east)
- Acadia is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Acadia
- Continue List (5 more) ...
- North Lyndon
(25 miles [40.2 km] to the southeast)
- North Lyndon is located in Aroostook County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for North Lyndon
- Van Buren
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the east)
- Washburn
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around New Canada. See our List of 1890's Communities around New Canada.
Newspapers Published in New Canada ...
An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).
To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.
Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 4 newspapers that have been published in the area around New Canada.
Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of New Canada, there are papers which were published within 26 miles [41.8 km]<4>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for New Canada.
Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...
When we do our genealogical research, we first turn to the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.
To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to New Canada:
- Websites specific to Maine
- Pages specific to Aroostook County
- Genealogy information for nearby counties
- Cemetery Information and Directories for Maine
Footnotes ...
| <1> | While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program. |
| <2> | The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com. |
| <3> | We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about New Canada, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy. |
| <4> | Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- New Canada) to Point B. In other words: 'As the crow flies'. |