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Baker Brook, — M. American immigrant lumbering and farming settlement, 

 formed in or soon after 1820, by John Baker and others. Baker 

 attempted to transfer Madawaska to the United States and thereby- 

 figured prominently in the documents of that period. (History in 

 " Remarks on the Disputed Points of Boundary," St. John, Second 

 Ed., 1839, Appendix VI; also C. R.). 



Baker Lake. — M. Recent Acadian settlement, formed in 1881, and later 

 under the Free Grants Act by expansion from older parts of Mada- 

 waska. (Loc. inf.; C. L. R.). 



Ballyshannon,— S. Also Friendship Hill (?). Irish immigrant farming set- 

 tlement, formed after 1842. (C. L. R.). 



Balmoral, — R. Parish est. 1876. The settlement was originally laid out 

 in 1856, but chiefly settled under the Free Grants Act in 1874 and 

 later by English iinmigrants (285 in number) from the vicinity of 

 Bristol (many of whom have since removed) with the addition of 

 native and Acadian expansion from the older settlements. (Adams, 

 12; Herdman, Restigouche; Stevenson's Report for 1874 gives a full 

 account). Has expanded to Blair Athol and Queen Anne settlement. 



Baltimore, — A. Early native farming settlement (with some later temporary 

 mining), formed about 1815 (?) by expansion from Hillsborough. (Loc. 

 inf.). 



Barachois, — W. Acadian settlement, formed soon after 1800 by Charles 

 Gautreau and others, an expansion from Memramcook. (Loc. inf.; 

 Plessis, 183, 254). 



Barnaby River, — N. Settled after the great fire in 1825 by Irish immigrants, 

 from the Miramichi, and originally from County Longford, Ireland; 

 most of whom had been employed by the Gilmour and Rankin establish- 

 ment. They expanded soon to Nelson village, and later to Semiwagan 

 Ridge. (Loc. inf.). 



Barnesville, — K. Formed about 1820 by native expansion from Hammond River. 

 (Loc. inf.). 



Barnesville, — Kt. Established under the Free Grants Act, 1901. 



Barony, — Y. Native farming and lumbering settlement gradually formed 

 by expansion from the neighbourhood and the lower St. John on lands 

 granted Hon. .Tohn Simcoe Saunders in 1792 and gradually sold to 

 the settlers. (C. L. R.). 



Bartibog, — N. Scotch and Irish immigrant settlements. Apparently settled 

 at its mouth by some Scotch Roman Catholics prior to 1812 (Plessis. 

 173), who probably came from Prince Edward Island, to which they 

 emigrated in 1772, led by John MacDonald of Glenaladale (MacLean, 

 Highlanders in America, 232). The river above its mouth was settled 

 by Irish immigrants about 1822. (Cooney, 119). 



Basswood Ridge, — C. An expansion of the Scotch settlement of Scotch Ridge. 

 (Loc. inf.). 



Bathurst, — G. Parish est. 1826. Includes early Indian, French and Acadian 

 settlements, considered under Nepisiguit, and some latter immigrant 

 settlements, considered under their respective names. The permanent 



