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Enniskillen, Patterson, Boyne, Clones, Dinglety couch, Londonderry, 

 Donegal, Long Settlement, Fredericton Road, Kinsale. 



Tt was during this period that the remarkable Scotch emigration 

 to the Eestigouche and Bay Chaleur began, which converted that 

 region from a scantily peopled wilderness into a well settled and pro- 

 gressive part of the province. These settlers were mostly from the 

 Island of Arran, and, according to Herdman (in his History of Eesti- 

 gouche), left their native land because their leases had expired, and 

 their landlord, the Duke of Hamilton, refused to renew them. The 

 first arrivals were in 1829, and thereafter they continued to come for 

 some years. A few of them settled above the older settlers on the 

 Eesd:igouche, and others between Campbellton and Dalhousie, but they 

 extended gradually beyond that, taking up the coast lands through Col- 

 horne and Durham, mingling somewhat with Acadian settlers between 

 Eel Eiver and Charlo Eiver, as far as Belledune, and with the exception 

 of a few places already occupied (at Jacquet Eiver, New Mills and 

 elsewhere) they founded the prosipcrous farming districts rnd villages 

 of that region, and have expanded to a considerable extent upon the 

 back lands. Scotch settlers from Pictou, Nova Scotia, also came, 

 especially to the lumber towns now rising at the mouth of the Eesti- 

 gouche {CampheUlovn and Dalhovsic) during! this period. In the 

 meantime there was also a considerable Scotch immigration to the 

 Miramichi, both from Scotland and Nova Scotia, and probably from 

 Prince Edward Island. Except in the case of Douglastown and 

 Napan, already mentioned, no distinct settlements were formed, but 

 the new immigrants joined with the earlier siettlers in building up the 

 now rapidly growing lumbering towns of Chatham and Newcastle. 



A special phase of immigration in this period was the introduction 

 of men to work on the construction of the St. Andrews and Quebec 

 Eailway, and who afterwards settled in the province. The most 

 important group of such settlers were the 100 labourers sent to St. 

 Andrews in 1847 by Earl Fitzwilliam from his estates at Wicklow 

 Island, but the consideration of this subject belongs rather in the next 

 period. 



A very important factor in the immigration of this period was the 

 New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Land Company. This company was 

 formed in England through the activity of Lieut. E. N. Kendall, who 

 is said to have become impressed with the possibiliticf of New Bruns- 

 wick during a visit made in connection with the boundary surveys.* 



* St. John Sun, July 15, IhST. 



Sec. II., 19C4. 6. 



