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Elgin, — A. Parish est. 1847. Settled along Coverdale and Pollet rivers by 

 expansion from the Petitcodiac Vallej', with a few immigrants after 

 1810, and along the Kennebecasis from lower on that river about 1820, 

 and in the southern part by native expansion from St. John, as noted 

 under names of the various settlements. (Ms. History of the Parish 

 by W. A. Colpitts of Mapleton ; Trueman, 220; St. John Sun, September 

 7, 1900). 



Elgin Corner, — A. Native farming settlement, formed in 1811 by John Geldart, 

 later joined by other settlers, an expansion from Coverdale and the 

 Petitcodiac. (Loc. inf.; St. John Sun, September 7, 1900; Trueman, Chig- 

 necto Isthmus, 220; C. L. R.). 



Ellenstown, — N. Irish immigrant (Methodist) settlement, formed not long 

 prior to 1832; formerly called Williamstown. (Cooney, 120; Gesner, 

 194, by a mis-print, calls them Welsh). 



Elm Tree River, — G. Est. 1901 under the Free Grants Act. 



Emenenic, — K. Early French winter-village on Catons Island, occupied in 

 1612 by sailors from France. (Jesuit Relations, II, 27; Hist. Sites, 268; 

 Raymond, St. John River, 20). 



Emerson's Creek, — J. Assigned to disbanded Loyalist soldiers in 1784, but 

 probably settled later by immigrants. (C. L. R. ; loc. inf.). 



Emigrant Settlement, — W. Irish immigrant farming settlement, formed in 

 1835-36. (Johnston, N. A. II, 71; fuller account by Botsford in Sackville 

 Post, January, 1886; Trueman, 51). 



Emigrant Settlement, — J. Irish immigrant farming settlement, formed 1818 

 or 1819, along the Upper Quaco Road, later largely abandoned. (C. L. R.; 

 loc. inf.). 



Emigrant Settlement, — S. Recent Irish immigrant farming settlement, est. 

 about 1860. (Loc. inf.). 



Enault, — G. See Nepisiguit. 



English Settlement, — Q. Early English immigrant settlement, formed in 

 1819 by eleven families, probably from Yorkshire; one of the most 

 important of the early immigrant settlements. (Johnston, Report, 84; 

 practical information to Emigrants, 79; in this settlement, prior to 

 1845, lived Mrs. Beaven, who published in that year in London her 

 "Sketches and Tales illustrative of Life in the Back Woods of New 

 Brunswick," a very valuable little work on the customs of New Bruns- 

 wick country life at that time). 



English Settlement, — Y. Formerly called Lime Kiln. One of the N.B. and 

 N.S. Land Company settlements, formed 1836 by English immigrants 

 from Northumberland. (Loc. inf.). 



Ennishone, — V. Also Innishowen. Irish immigrant settlement, formed in 1861 

 (surveyed 1857), mostly from Cork; now being occupied by many French. 

 (Loc. inf.). 



Enniskillen, — Q. Irish immigrant, formed prior to 1826; apparently at first 

 called Adair Settlement. (C. L. R.). 



