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*[https://archives.gnb.ca/ResearchTools/GuideToBiographies/?culture=en-CA '''Guide to Biographies'''] Provincial Archives of New Brunswick | *[https://archives.gnb.ca/ResearchTools/GuideToBiographies/?culture=en-CA '''Guide to Biographies'''] Provincial Archives of New Brunswick | ||
*[https://archive.org/details/cihm_07345 '''Biographical review: this volume contains biographical sketches of leading citizens of the Province of New Brunswick'''] Jack, I. Allen (Isaac Allen), 1843-1903; Biographical Review Publishing Company (Boston, Mass.) | *[https://archive.org/details/cihm_07345 '''Biographical review: this volume contains biographical sketches of leading citizens of the Province of New Brunswick'''] Jack, I. Allen (Isaac Allen), 1843-1903; Biographical Review Publishing Company (Boston, Mass.) | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/608234?availability=Family%20History%20Library '''Canadian historical and biographical collection'''] Microfilm of typescripts at the New Brunswick Museum, St. John, New Brunswick. Includes articles on various subjects such as Acadians, Loyalists, Indians, general Canadian history, and biographies. Many of the articles concern the Maritime provinces. | |||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/53133?availability=Family%20History%20Library '''Miscellaneous histories and diaries of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick'''] | |||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/45793?availability=Family%20History%20Library '''Pre-loyalist biography'''] | |||
=== Biographical Dictionaries === | === Biographical Dictionaries === | ||
You find them in books like ''A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography being Chiefly Men of the Times'' (1888) or ''Prominent People of the Maritime Provinces''. By 1922 when this was published, women, though not yet legally ‘persons’, were allotted some twenty entries. As well, the annual editions of ''The Canadian Who’s Who'' and its variants, can be a useful source because they usually give the place of birth, names of parents and often earlier lineage, as well as marriage, wife, children and education, offering leads to professional and college directories. | You find them in books like ''A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography being Chiefly Men of the Times'' (1888) or ''Prominent People of the Maritime Provinces''. By 1922 when this was published, women, though not yet legally ‘persons’, were allotted some twenty entries. As well, the annual editions of ''The Canadian Who’s Who'' and its variants, can be a useful source because they usually give the place of birth, names of parents and often earlier lineage, as well as marriage, wife, children and education, offering leads to professional and college directories. | ||