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Coverdale, — A. Parish est. 1828. Settled opposite Moncton by some of the 

 Pennsylvania German settlers in 1765 (see Hillsborough, Moncton), and 

 along the Petitcodiac by an expansion from the last mentioned settle- 

 ments and from Sackville and Cumberland, with some disbanded soldiers 

 from Fort Cumberland. Later the descendants of these settlers ex- 

 tended up Turtle Creek and Little hiver, and to the back lands. (True- 

 man, 220; Loc. inf.; St. John /S'm«, September 7, 1900). 



Crocker Settlement, — N. Established 1876, on the I. C. Railroad, but not 

 taken up. 



Cross Creek Settlement, — Y. N.B. and N.S. Land Company settlement, formed 

 soon after Stanley (about 1838) by English immigrants. (Loc. inf.). 



Cumberland, — W. Now called Westmorland. Originally settled (as Beauséjour) 

 by the French, who were all expelled in 1755. Later, a few disbanded 

 soldiers settled near Fort Cumberland, but its modern settlement 

 really begins when an association of families from New England set- 

 tled here in 1761, receiving a grant of the township in 1763. Later, 

 some immigrant families from Yorkshire, England, purchased lands 

 and settled here. A few Loyalists arrived in 1783 and some immi- 

 grants from Great Britain and other sources later. With rich marsh 

 lands, and, in recent years, good communication by railway, it has 

 grown prosperously and expanded greatly to the other parts of the 

 Province. (History by Trueman, in The Chignecto Isthmus; Hist. Sites, 

 328, 335.) 



Curleyburg, — Y. N.B. and N.S. Land Company settlement, formed by immi- 

 grants from Great Britain. (Loc. inf.). 



Daihousie, — R. Parish est. 1839. Includes a Micmac village and an Acadian 

 settlement at Eel River. Settled along the Restigouche by Scotch set- 

 tlers prior to 1810, in part an expansion from the settlement above 

 and in part new mostly Scotch settlers; and their descendants have 

 expanded to the back lands. 



The town of Daihousie was laid out in 1826, at which time it had 

 less than a dozen Scotch and French settlers, and it was made the shire 

 town in 1837. As a shipping port for lumber it grew rapidly, reaching 

 its culmination about 1850-56, and in recent years it has declined. 

 (Herdman; Cooney, 208; St. John Sun, February 6, 1883; Johnston, 

 N. A., I, 408, II, 3; Loc. inf.). 



Damascus, — K. Native, formed about 1843 by expansion from neighbouring 

 districts. (Loc. inf.). 



Danish Settlement, — V. See Neio Denmark. 



Darby Gillans, — S. Former post house on the old Nerepis road, established 

 before 1826. 



Dawsonvale,— R. Est. 1879 under the Free Grants Act. (C. L. R.). 



Debec, — Cn. Small lumbering village, commenced about 1825 by native set- 

 tlers, and a railway junction since 1869. 



