New Maryland, New Brunswick (1871 census)

Name: New Maryland (1871)
Address: New Brunswick, CA

New Maryland was a census subdivision in New Brunswick, recorded in the 1871 Census of Canada with a population of 488. The community is grounded to Wikidata Q3365856. The administrative centroid was at approximately 45.722°N, 66.808°W.

Population

In 1871, New Maryland had a population of 488: 238 male and 250 female residents.

Population trajectory across census years

Year	Population
1871	488
1881	448
1891	409
1901	387
1911	373
1921	367

Cross-year identity established by spatial polygon overlap (SAME_AS chains across the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary files).

Boundary continuity (non-identical overlaps)

Spatial polygon overlaps with adjacent census years where the boundary shifted enough that the SAME_AS chain didn't merge them. These show where the territory came from and went to even when it isn't tracked as the same persistent place.

Earlier boundary forms

In an earlier year, this CSD was contained in NO DATA, 1861 (0.6% share).

Neighbouring Census Subdivisions in 1871

In the 1871 census, New Maryland shared boundaries with:

Full census record, 1871

The 1871 census recorded 18 measurements for this Census Subdivision across 4 categories.

Population & families (1871). This community's record includes 488 total population, 250 females, 238 males, 147 married persons, 81 families, 75 married females, 72 married males, 14 widowed persons, 12 widowed females, 2 widowed males. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Age structure (1871). This community's record includes 327 single persons under 18, 164 single males under 18, 163 single females under 18. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Buildings & housing (1871). This community's record includes 80 inhabited houses, 80 occupied houses, 6 uninhabited houses, 2 houses under construction. (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

Agriculture (1871). This community's record includes 105,000 total area (acres). (Source: 1871 Census of Canada, V1T1.)

People with Dictionary of Canadian Biography entries

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography includes biographies of 16 people connected to this place who were alive in 1871, listed below by birth year. Each name links to that person's DCB entry.

Name	Lifespan	Connection
John Simcoe Saunders	1795–1878	died here
Edward Barron Chandler	1800–1880	died here
John Adolphus Beckwith	1800–1880	died here
Robert Gowan	1800–1879	died here
John Medley	1804–1892	died here
John Wilkinson	1804–1871	died here
Charles Fisher	1808–1880	died here
Lemuel Allan Wilmot	1809–1878	died here
Baron Joseph Marshall De Brett Maréchal D'Avray	1811–1871	died here
George Luther Hathaway	1813–1872	died here
William Brydone Jack	1817–1886	died here
Andrew Rainsford Wetmore	1820–1892	died here
John Pickard	1824–1883	died here
Walter M. Buck	1826–1881	died here
John Babbitt	1845–1889	died here
Rebecca Agatha Armour	1845–1891	died here

Identifiers

TCP UID: NB179006 — year-scoped identifier from the Canadian Census Subdivision boundary file
Persistent place ID: PLACE_NB036008 — computed from spatial-overlap chains across census years
Wikidata: Q3365856
Wikipedia (EN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Maryland_Parish,_New_Brunswick
Wikipédia (FR): https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paroisse_de_New_Maryland

Sources

Census tabulations from the 1871 Census of Canada, transcribed and georeferenced by the Canadian Peoples / TCP project, hosted at the HGIS Lab, University of Saskatchewan. Persistent place identity computed from spatial-overlap chains across all available census years (1851–1921). Identity grounding to Wikidata performed via the HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph project's MCP-assisted disambiguation pipeline. See the About / Methodology page for the full data pipeline.

Cite this page

Clifford, J. (2026). "New Maryland, New Brunswick (1871 census)" in HGIS Canada Knowledge Graph. Retrieved from https://jimclifford.ca/hgiscanada/places/nb/new-maryland-nb179006-1871/.