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Fredericsburg, — Y. N.B. and N.S. Land Company settlement, formed by set- 

 tlers from Scotland. (Loc. inf.). 



Fredericton, — Y. Lioyalist city, founded in 1785, as the capital of the province, 

 on the site of the Acadian village of St. Annes. The situation was 

 chosen primarily because it was the most nearly central position on 

 navigable waters. Est. as a town in 1786, incorporated as a city in 1848, 

 now the second city in the province. The shire town of York since 

 1786. (History not yet properly written, but a valuable series of 20 

 articles by W. G. Macfarlane appeared in the St. John Sun, in 1892). 



Fredericton Road, — W. Formerly called Albert. Irish immigrant settlement, 

 formed after 1843 on a projected highway from Moncton to Fredericton. 

 (Botsford, Chignecto Post, January, 1886; C. L. R.). 



French Bay, — N. Or Lower Bay du Vin. See Baie des Ouines. 



French Fort Cove, — N. Early French battery on the west entrance, doubtless 

 built about 1755 for the protection of BoisMbert. (Hist. Sites, 295). 



French Lake. — S. (Oromocto). Former small Acadian farming settlement, 

 probably founded by refugee Acadians out of reach of the English ships 

 after Monckton's expedition in 1758. (Loc. inf.; Hist. Sites, 272). 



French Lake, — S. (East of St. John). Origin and history probably as for the 

 preceding. 



French Location, — Y. Former small Acadian village below the mouth of the 

 Keswick, granted them at the same time the grants were made to 

 Loyalist settlers in Douglas; they soon sold their lands and their later 

 history is unknown. (Hist. Sites, 270 ; Raymond, in Canadian History 

 Readings, 283, 341). 



French Location, — V. In 1814 a grant was made to ten Acadian families in 

 the angle between the Aroostook and St. John, but they never settled 

 there and, doubtless, immediately sold their lands and went to Mada- 

 waska. (C. L. R.). 



French Village, — K. Former Acadian village of some 15 families, formed 

 apparently on the repatriation about 1767 or 1768; they received grants 

 of their lands in 1787, but soon after sold them to the English and 

 removed to Madawaska, (Hist. Sites, 272; C. L. R.; Raymond, in 

 Canadian History Readings, 283). 



French Village, Lower. — Y. Acadian settlement, founded probably by the 

 Acadians of St. Annes, after the destruction of their settlement by the 

 English in 1759; for reasons unknown they were not obliged to retire 

 to Madawaska after 1786, but they remained here and received grants 

 of land which are still in possession of their almost entirely Anglicized 

 descendants. An expansion of this settlement was formed in the Mysh- 

 rall settlement, back from the river. (Loc. inf.; Hist. Sites, 269; C. L. R.). 



French Village, Upper, — Y. Acadian village with a history like that of the 

 preceding, but smaller than the latter. 



