Ste Anne of Ristigouche is a very old and historical parish you will find here, registers as old as 1759 Scotish, English, Irish, French, Acadian, Jersey Islanders, and Micmac Indians Not to mention many mixed religions The registers which covers the period from Oct. 17/1759 to Dec. 12/1761 are those of the Catholic, Recollets fathers "Etienne" Cotton and "Ambroise" Rouillard. Then there is no sign of a register for a period of 10 years.

Father "Ambroise" left Ristigouche in 1761 for Rimouski. On his way back to Rimouski one day, in 1768, after a brief stay at Ristigouche to replace father "Bonaventure", he found death in an accident. He is replaced by father "Bonaventure" Carpentier.

The "Baie des Chaleurs" marriages, births and deaths are entered in the Caraquet register. There is one single record found for Ristigouche entered by Father de la Brosse on Nov. 19/1771.

From 1773 to 1795, father Mathurin Bourg is at Tracadieche (Carleton) Province of Quebec, and he covered a great amount of territory. Not only did he cover the Quebec side of the river but records are found for as far as Baie Ste Marie, Acadia St John River area, all of Restigouche county and most of Gloucester county also.

When the great deportation took place, there were about 12,000 acadians. Between 1755 and 1763 when the English gave up this expatriation business, they had expatriated about 9 to 10,000 which left quite a few Acadians to start anew and a lot of the ones where were expatriated came back.

Ristigouche has records for the year 1774 which covers "Riviere St Jean" , Kennebecasis, Peticoudiac, Memramcook Port Royal and Baie Ste Marie.