The Nova Scotia Archives has posted online the first 50 years of Catholic parish records, from 1799 to 1849, of the predominantly Acadian French township of Argyle, Yarmouth County. This collection of baptisms, first communions, marriages, and burials contains 4,575 records and is searchable by name.
The Argyle Township Court House and Archives created the resource and the Nova Scotia Archives provided technical assistance to integrate and host the final results.
Each record is linked to a data table that provides information, in English and French, about the event. Below the table, you will find a digitized image of the original page, written in French. Another link leads to a full transcription of that same page that you can easily copy and paste into Google Translate for a fairly good, although not perfect, English translation.
In the description about this resource, the Nova Scotia Archives writes that there is still more information about the parish available on the website: “The resource is enhanced by a background article providing valuable information about Argyle Township, its early history, Acadian families, the arrival of Catholic clergy and the growth of the first parish and its mission churches. Also included are detailed descriptions of the eleven registers which are the focus of this resource, plus useful information for understanding the wealth of kinship detail contained in the records.”
If you do not have any Acadian ancestry, but would still like to see how this resource is laid out, enter “Leblanc” in the search box to see more than 400 entries. Visit the database on the Nova Scotia Archives website.
Each Acadian Argyle Township parish record includes key information in English and French and an image of the original French record.
