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ROYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 

 D. Summary. 



Such were the factors determining tlie origin and distribution of 

 settlements! in the Acadian period. If now we ask to what extent that 

 distribution affected the locations of settlements to-day, we find that 



Map No. 7. 



the present distribution of Acadian settlements was then in a general 

 way determined, but otherwise little influence is manifest. 



4. The Exulisii Peuiod (nG0-n>;;3). 



This period of New Brunswick history, although interlocking with 

 the Acadian period from the capture of Fort Beauséjour in 1755, prac- 

 tically began when tlie fall of Quebec in 1759 gave assurance of the 

 ultimate possession, complete and peaceable, of all ('nnada and Acadia 



