Kinship and Migration to the Upper St. John Valley (Maine - New Brunswick)

Craig, Béatrice

Article exploring the demographic shifts of the Upper St. John River Valley - Maine and New Brunswick - through the first fifty years of the Madwaska settlement, beginning in 1785. The author uses parish records and genealogical sources - what she calls the "cohort-life history method" - to build a portrait of the early in-migration of French Canadian and Acadian Madawaska communities, their habits, and their peopling. Individual, family, and community mobility and some thoughts on the explanations behind it.

1983 Spring

en

Journal Article

19th century - 20th century

Madawaska, Maine

New Brunswick

9739-3759

Québec Studies

1

151-163