[ganong] origins of SETTLEMENTS IN NEW BRUNSWICK 135 



Golden Mountain, — A. Common corruption for Goicland Mountain. 



Golden Ridge, — Cn. The post-office for Hkcdaddlc Ridge. 



Golden Ridge,— T. Settled in 1863 by " Skedaddlers " from the United States, 

 who came here to escape the draft into the Union armies. (Loc. inf.). 



Goods Corner, — Cn. Settled about 1843 by three brothers of that name, (W. 

 O. Raymond Ms.). 



Gooldsborough, — S. Former large estate granted 1767 to Arthur Goold in 

 Lincoln, and settled by New Englanders and Loyalists under his grant. 

 {Hist. Sites, 334; Coll. N.B. Hist. Soc, H, 158). 



Gordon, — V. Parish est. 1863. Settled entirely by native expansion along 

 the Tobiquc Ixiccr from the St. John and other parts of N. B. 



Gordon, — S. Former name of a settlement near Shirley (perhaps Greenfield). 

 (Gesner, 153; Ward, 31). 



Gordon Vale, — Y. N.B. and N.S. Land Company settlement, formed about 

 1875 or earlier, by natives of New Brunswick. 



Goshen, — A. Native settlement, formed about 1830 by expansion from the 

 Lower Kennebecasis. (Loc. inf.) 



Goshen, — K. Immigrant settlement, formed about 1827, by settlers from Nova 

 Scotia and Ireland. (Loc. inf.). 



Gowland Mountain, — A. English immigrant settlement, formed in 1829 or 

 later by George Gowland and family, later joined by others. (Loc. inf.; 

 Johnston, Report, 84). 



Graham's Corner, — Y. Settled about 1S62, probably by expansion from the 

 St. John. (Loc. inf.). 



Grande Anse.^G. Acadian farming and fishing settlement, formed about 1810 

 (grants in 1816), apparently an expansion of Caraquet. (Johnston, N. 

 A., II, 18). 



Grand Falls, — V. Temporary French post in 1756, but its modern settlement 

 begins with the establishment here of a military post in 1791 by Gover- 

 nor Carleton, since which time it has grown slowly to the present. 

 Extensive mills were planned here in 1832 by Sir John Coldell, and 

 in 1842 it was laid out as a town under the name Colehroohe, while in 

 1896 it was incorporated. It was the shire town of Victoria from 1844 

 to 1S76. (Apparently nothing of consequence has been written on «its 

 history: Rameau, II, 374; Alexander, L'Acadie, II, 71; Johnston, N. A., 

 I, 65). 



The parish was established 1852. It was settled along the river, 

 mostly by native settlers from various sources, apparently after 1827, 

 and in the interior sparingly by their expansion, with a few immigrants. 



Grandigue,— Kt. Part of the original settlement of Acadians at Shcdiac. 



Grand Lake, — Q. Settled around its entire shores in 1784-1786 by Loyalists. 

 (C. L. R.). 



