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County Court Records Finding Aids

The Minutes of the New Brunswick County Courts of General Quarter Sessions are a rich historical source, valuable to a variety of types of researchers including social historians, law students, criminologists, educators, and genealogists.  Formatted transcriptions and nominal indexes have been and posted with the corresponding catalogue records on The Loyalist Collection website to make this significant and valuable work accessible to researchers.

New Research Aids

Finding aids are key to finding the documents you need in archival collections. Listed below are new finding aids, usually included as PDFs in the catalogue records of The Loyalist Collection, which have been developed recently by UNB Archives & Special Collections.

Black History Sources

Visit the Collection’s Black History Guide for primary sources related to Black History in the Atlantic World and the African Diaspora.

For documents specifically related to the history of enslaved people and slavery in what became the Maritime Provinces of Canada, see…

British West Indies: Subject Guide

This guide provides a sample of the wide variety of materials in The Loyalist Collection relating to the islands making up the West Indies, today referred to as the Caribbean, and specifically the British island colonies, with an overview of what they contain and how to search them. The material provides a window into this region during the 18th and early 19th centuries, and its place in the wider British Atlantic World.