Section II., 1904 [ 3 ] Trans. R. S. C. 



I. — A Monograph of the Origins of Settlements in the Province 



of New Brunswich. 



(Contributions to the History of New Brunswick, No. 6.) 



By William F. Ganong, M.A., Ph.D. 



The Settlements of the Province of New Brunswick exhibit a 

 remarkahle irregularity in their geographical distribution, and a sur-, 

 prising diversity in the original nationality of their inhabitants. The 

 population has the compactness of a large city in one place, is of various 

 degrees of density in others, while it is wholly wanting in some great 

 areas; and settlements of Indian, Acadian French, New England, Loyalist 

 English, Scotch, Irish, Danish and other national origins are inter- 

 mingled in a seemingly lawless manjier. Yet every settlement, great 

 or small, has its position, size, and nationality determined by perfectly 

 definite causes, in part historical, in part sociological, and in part envi- 

 ronmental. It is the task of the present work to attempt to explain these 

 causes, to disentangle their complex interactions, and to explain pre- 

 cunei y why each settlement in New Brunswick is where it is^ and ivhat 

 it is. 



