Katherine Pomerleau is a Commissioner of Oaths for New Brunswick, based at Grand-Barachois and available in the Memramcook valley by arrangement. The service is narrow by design: administering oaths and affirmations, and witnessing statutory declarations and affidavits, in person.
Memramcook is often called the cradle of New Acadie, and the description is historical rather than decorative. Collège Saint-Joseph was founded here in 1864 and was the first French-language degree-granting institution in Atlantic Canada; the Monument-Lefebvre, built in 1896 and 1897, still stands over the valley as a national historic site. A community that has kept track of itself for that long tends to have paper going back generations: parish records, land held under the same name since before anyone now living was born, and the declarations that become necessary when somebody has to state formally what those records show.
The valley's farmland sits behind marshland, dykes and aboiteaux, some of it worked by the same families across generations. Land held that long produces its own paperwork when it moves: declarations about ownership and occupancy, statements supporting an estate, and the affidavits that accompany a transfer. These are documents where the swearing is not a formality — it is the part that makes the statement usable by the office receiving it.
Collège Saint-Joseph drew students to this valley from across Acadie for more than a century, and the pattern of leaving to study or work while keeping a foot at home has never really stopped. That produces paperwork aimed at institutions somewhere else: declarations of residence for people registered here but living elsewhere for part of the year, statements supporting applications made in another province, and affidavits about identity for offices that have never met the person signing. All of them have to be sworn in front of someone, and it is easier when that someone is in the valley.
Bring the form unsigned and bring identification. Please note that a commissioner of oaths is not a notary public: she does not notarize or certify documents, and cannot draft them or advise on their contents.