The Guide to Biographies at the Provincial Archives was created by compiling a listing of published and printed biographies found in various
collections or publications at the Provincial Archives.
Sources used to compile the list are:
Biographical Review, Province of New Brunswick; I. Allen Jack
Editor; Biographical Review Publishing Company, Boston, 1900
Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution; Lorenzo Sabine, Kennikat Press, Port Washington, 1966
Cahiers de la Société historique Nicolas-Denys, Dictionnaire
biographique, Société historique Nicolas-Denys, Shippagan, N.-B.
Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume 1, University of
Toronto Press, 1966
Dictionary of Miramichi Biography, Biographical Sketches of men and women born before 1900, by Willis D. Hamilton. Privately published, Saint John, NB, 1997. Since this publication is still in print, the Archives does not make photocopies of sketches from it. You might wish to communicate with the author/publisher at the following Email address: [email protected]
Prominent People of the Maritime Provinces ; Canadian Publicity Company, Saint John, J. A. McMillan Imprimeur, St John, 1922
Prominent People of New Brunswick, in the Religious, Educational, Political, Professional, Commercial and Social Activities of the Province; C. H. McLean, Lieut.- Colonel; Biographical Society of Canada, 1938
Graves Papers (MC1156)
Vera Ayling Records (MC2402)
Researchers who are working on their family trees should also check the companion volume, Guide to Family Histories at the Provincial
Archives. Both of these Guides are
updated regularly.