[&anoxG] BOUNDARIES OF NEW BRUNSWICK 225 
tory, for it included all of Gaspé. Probably there were two reasons 
for this distinction between the provinces : — first, Massachusetts could 
and would protest most vigorously against any alienation of any of 
her rights and privileges without compensation. In fact in the rôle 
of vigorous protestor, Massachusetts has always been a signal success. 
But Nova Scotia, with its scantier and more divided population, the pro- 
portionally greater influence of the Crown, and its much greater terri- 
tory probably never thought of protest. Secondly, it may have been 
held, and with perfect justice, that Nova Scotia had already received 
far more pecuniary and other favours from the Crown than had Massa- 
chusetts. 
Shortly after 1763, therefore, the northern and western boundaries 
of Nova Scotia had been definitely settled by legal enactments accord- 
ing to the geographical lights of the time, but no attempt was made 
to trace out these legal lines through the actual country. As long as 
the country was unsettled there was'no need to do this, but with the 
fall of Quebec and the removal of all danger from the French, an ac- 
tive emigration had begun from Massachusetts to Nova Scotia. Set- 
tlers began to take up lands at Passamaquoddy in 1763, and large 
grants of land were sought there, less, however, for settlement than 
for speculation. It soon became evident that there was much difference 
of opinion as to which of the rivers emptying into the Passamaquoddy 
Bay was the St. Croix forming the western boundary of Nova Scotia, 
and hence it was doubtful whether the grants of certain lands were to 
be ‘sought from Massachusetts or Nova Scotia. This confusion was 
natural enough, for the position of the original St. Croix, as indeed 
the reason for its naming and all its early associations had long since 
been lost sight of, and in the absence of such knowledge it was im- 
possible to give the legal St. Croix an actual topographical location. 
This could only be done by identifying it with the original St. 'Croix 
of Champlain of which it was an unquestioned lineal descendant, but 
this was not done until 1797. In the meantime, however, many attempts 
to locate the St. Croix were made, and these were of much interest in 
themselves, and have such a bearing upon one phase of the subsequent 
boundary disputes, that the subject deserves a separate aE nate which 
will be found in the section to follow. 
We must first, however, consider the administrative and other 
local boundaries in this period. It opened without a single local bound- 
ary line of any sort whatever in the present New Brunswick, ‘for the 
old French ‘boundaries had all vanished, and the bounds of the Town- 
ship of Harrington, laid out in 1732, had been forgotten. 
