Victoria County (2001 population 21,172) is located in northwestern New Brunswick, Canada. Farming, especially of potatoes, is the major industry in the county.
List of towns in Victoria County, with 2001 populations given:
It asked the date on which they entered the colony; persons born in NewBrunswick usually have written "birth" in this column, while others who were born elsewhere and moved to the province have the date indicated, usually by year.
The transcription presented here is an exact copy of the returns from that census for VictoriaCounty, today's Victoria and Madawaska Counties, as preserved in the microfilm copy of the original held in the National Archives of Canada (microfilm reel number C-996).
As with all previous US and NewBrunswick censuses, the census takers in 1851 were all Anglophones; this is interesting given that four of the parishes had overwhelmingly French majorities.
NewBrunswick was part of the original Acadia; it was colonized by the French in the 18th century, then captured by the British, who expelled the French-speaking Acadians in 1755 and incorporated the area into Nova Scotia.
NewBrunswick's forests are still filled with bear, deer, and moose, and the rivers abound in trout and salmon, although pollution from paper mills has reduced the salmon population.
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