[canong] origins of SETTLEMEXTS IN NEW BRUNSWICK 



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tello Tower) and at St. Andrews, but practically these insignificant 

 lotal defences produced uo permanent effect upon settlement. 



In two indirect ways, however, the earlier settlers slightly affected 

 the Loyalist settleonents. First, they had possession of some of the 

 most valuable lands, (Maugerville, Sackville, Westmorland, Hills- 



Jiap 



NEW BRUNSWICK 



sketched G iUustrate 

 tkc îû cation, o^ îAë- 

 ccltIi^ hi^huroA/ roads 



Map No. 10. The road along the St. John above Woodstock should be in the 

 finer dots indicating the Innnigration period, in which it was actually built. 



borough, and ^loncton), from which the Loj'alists were tliereby ex- 

 cluded, and second, the delay in securing the escheats of the great 

 unoccupied grants serious!}', even though only temporarily, checked 

 the formation of the Loyalist settlements, and helped to send many 

 settlers into the readjustment settlements of Miramichi and elsewhere. 

 !•. Development of artificial lines of communication. The opening 

 of this period in 1783 found the Province possessed of no lines of 

 communication except the natural waterways and the portages between 



