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Caverhill, — Y. Early Scotch immigrant settlement, formed in 1820, by Dr. 

 Caverhill with several other families from the south of Scotland. 

 (Log. inf.). 



Centerville, — Cn. Formerly Perkins Corner. Modern village amid a native 

 farming settlement, founded about 1855, by natives of Kings County 

 and Maugerville. The distributing centre for a prosperous farming 

 country. (St. John Sun, February, 1893). 



Centre Village, — W. Native settlement, formed about 1860, by expansion 

 from Sackville and Botsford. (Loc. inf.). 



Chamcook, — C. Loyalist village; settled after 1785, by expansion from neigh- 

 bouring Penobscot association settlements (Vroom, in Courier, CVI). 

 In 1835 there was a wet-dock and a paper mill here (Wedderburn). 



Chance Harbour, — J. Loyalist fishing village; settled in 1784 by a few fam- 

 ilies. (Loc. inf.). 



Chapmanville, — Cn. Native settlement, an expansion from Johnville, with 

 other settlers, mostly native. Established 1880 under the Free Grants 

 Act. (Adams, 25; Loc. inf.). 



Charnisay, — J. Early French fort, built in 1645, at the mouth of the St. John. 

 (Hist. Sites, 277). 



Chantier, — C. Former small French habitation and grant on the site of St. 

 Stephen, established about 1695. (Hist. Sites, 226, 308). 



Chatham, — N. Parish est. 1814; originally settled after 1770 along the Mir- 

 amichi, mostly by Scotch settlers (see Miramichi), and later by Scotch 

 immigrants at Napan, which see. 



The town of Chatham has grown up since 1812 under the stimulus 

 of the great timber trade of the Miramichi river, and as the trading 

 centre of the surrounding country. It was incorporated 1896. (Loc. 

 inf.; Cooney, 107). 



Chauffeurs, — Kt. Early temporary French habitation, founded in 1681 or 

 1682, at a site unknown on the south bank of the Richibucto. (Hist. 

 Sites, 291.) 



Chediac, — W. See Shediac. 



Chester, — A. Settled about 1825 by expansion from the Shepody settlements. 



Chignecto. An alternative name for Beaubassin. 



Chipman, — Q. Parish est. 1835. Settled along Salmon river, mostly after 

 1800, by native settlers, mixed with some immigrants, and on the back- 

 lands and the Gaspereau by later immigrants, as noted under those 

 settlements. 



Within recent years, mostly since 1890, a prosperous mill village 

 has grown up at the intersection of the Central Railway with Salmon 

 river. It is called Chipman, earlier Lillooet. 



Chipoudi, — A. See Shepody. 



Chockpish, — Kt. Also Chockpiche; now Ste. Anne. Acadian settlement, 

 formed about 1820 (survey, 1821), probably as an expansion from Richi- 

 bucto or Buctouche. 



