New Brunswick Maps: Difference between revisions

Used in conjunction with Alan Rayburn’s 20th century information and excellent map in ''Geographical Names of New Brunswick,'' it should not be too difficult to locate most ancestor’s post office. Older road maps from the 1950s to 1970s, if you can find them, usually have most small communities marked, but modern tourist road maps are not much help.  

However, to really focus in on a region, try to locate the Canadian ''National Topographical Series'' of 1:50,000 (approximately 1.25 inches to a mile) maps, prepared in the 1950s. Based on military surveys of 1909-1917, they were revised after World War II using an R.C.A.F. aerial survey of 1950. Every building is shown, churches, schools, sawmills and cemeteries are identified, every road passable or otherwise, railroads, and quite a few abandoned rail tracks. When they were prepared at the end of WWII, one-room schools and old farms were still standing and it is possible to locate things on these maps that have now been swallowed by highway bypasses and vacation developments.