[ganong] origins of SETTLEMENTS IN NEW BRUNSWICK 111 



Acton, — Y. Irish immigrant settlement, founded in 1842 on the Fredericton- 

 St. Andrews Road by some 20 families. (Johnston, N. A., II, 175; 

 also, with all their names, in his Report, 95.) 



Adair Settlement, — Q. Apparently an early name for Entliskillen. 



Adamsville, — Kt. Recent Acadian settlement formed under the Free Grants 

 Act in 1879 on the I. C. Railroad, by expansion from native sources, 

 mainly from Prince Edward Island. (Adams, 33; loc. inf.). 



Addington, — R. Parish est. 1826, including- the earliest settlements of Resti- 

 gouche, and some later Scotch and French immigrants, as noted under 

 the respective settlements. 



Albert, — W. Former name of Fredericton Road. 



Albert, — A. Thriving village at the terminus of the Albert Railway, settled 

 first as an original part of Hopewell. 



Albert Mines, — A. Former mining village, attracting residents from many 

 sources, formed about 1850 for the mining of albertite, and largely 

 abandoned on its exhaustion, about 1875. (History of the industry in 

 Burtis' New Brunswick, 44; Bailey, Report Geological Survey, 1897, 

 69 M; Hind, Geological Report, 1865, 91). 



Aldouane, — Kt. Also Ardouane, I'Aldouane and now St. Charles. Important 

 Acadian village, formed about 1790 by some 15 families, who had been 

 transported to England from Nova Scotia in 1755-56, went to St. Malo 

 in 1763, to Bonaventure (Quebec) in 1774, and thence to Aldouane. 

 (Gaudet, Ms.; Plessis, 180; Cooney, 149.) Has grown steadily to the 

 present, expanding to other parts of Kent. 



Allandale, — Y. Scotch and Irish immigrant settlement, formed about 1845 

 (surveyed 1842). (Loc. inf.). 



Alma, — A. Parish est. 1855; contains two sets of settlements, — (1) the 

 lumbering and farming Alma Village and neighbouring coast, formed 

 about 1810 by natives of Nova Scotia, who have expanded to the back 

 lands, including Eastings, and (2) the later settlements along the Shepody 

 Road, formed by Scotch and Irish immigrants at Roxborough and New 

 Ireland (in part). 



Alma, — Y. Recent settlement, formed about 1860 under the Labour Act, 

 by expansion from older native settlements. (Loc. inf.). 



Almeston, — K. Another name for Amesbury; correctly Olmaston. 



Alnwick,— N. Parish est. 1786; includes the early Indian Skinouboudiche, 

 Tabusintac, the early French Fronsac, the early Acadian Neguac, R. du 

 Cache, and modern Acadian and native expansion settlements, treated 

 under their respective names. 



Alston Point, — G. Site of a former trading post founded about 1766 by 

 Commodore Walker, and destroyed by American privateers in 1776. 

 (Cooney, 171; Hist. Sites, 330). 



Alwington, — K. The Manor property of Colonel Coffin near the mouth of 

 the Nerepis, purchased by him from B. P. Glasier (Glasier's Manor), 

 grantee in 1765; now sold to many settlers. 



