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Milkish, — K. Loyalist settlement, formed 1784. (Loc. inf.). 



Millstream, — K. Loyalist expansion settlement, formed soon after 17S3 by 

 Loyalist families, joined in 1800 and later by some immigrants from 

 Yorkshire and Ireland. It has expanded steadily up this stream to 

 Berwick, Mount Middleton and head of Millstream. The settlements 

 at its mouth were originally included in Studville. (History given fully 

 in St. John Sun, April 7, 1892; Winslow Papers, 494). 



Milltown, — C. First settled in 1785 by a part of the disbanded Scotch regi- 

 ment, the 74th Highlanders, joined by Loyalists and settlers from 

 various sources. Favoured by several valuable water powers it has 

 grown to a prosperous mill and manufacturing (cotton) town; incor- 

 porated 1873. (Vroom, Courier, CHI). 



Millville, — Y. A native N.B. and N.S. Land Company mill village, formed 

 about 1860 by expansion from older parts of New Brunswick. (Loc. 

 inf.). 



Millville, — G. Acadian settlement, formed about 1874 under the Free Grants 

 Act, and settled from the neighbouring Acadian districts. (Adams, 16). 



Miramichi, — M. Old name for the settlements on the lower course of this 

 river. Settled first by the French at Beaubears Island (Boishébert) 

 and elsewhere, but its permanent settlement began in 1764 when 

 "William Davidson settled at Wilson's Point, and was soon after joined 

 by other Scotch settlers from Scotland, Prince Edward Island, and 

 Nova Scotia. It suffered severely from the attacks of American pri- 

 vateers during the Revolution, which led many settlers to remove to 

 the St. John. After the Revolution some Loyalists settled here, and 

 additional Scotch from the sources above mentioned continued to 

 arrive, with considerable accessions of Irish after 1820, thus originating 

 the present prosperous settlement of that river. (Hist. Sites, 330, 336; 

 Cooney, 41; Raymond, Coll. N.B. Hist. Soc, II, 93; Winslow Papers, 500). 



Miscou, — G. Originally this name applied to both this island and Shippegan. 

 Early teinporary French trading and fishing post, founded on an 

 unknown site in 1623, by Raymond de la Ralde, and another founded 

 1652 by Nicholas Denys on the south shore of Miscou Harbour (Hist. 

 Sites, 298); also an early Jesuit Mission, of St. Charles de Miscou, site 

 unknown; also a temporary settlement (traditional) of Acadians from 

 Prince Edward Island at Landry river, prior to 1773, who, in part, 

 at least, removed to Nepisiguit. In 1775 also it had, perhaps, two 

 English-speaking settlers (Hist. Sites, 331). Prior to 1819 a disbanded 

 Highland soldier, named Campbell, with his family settled here (McGre- 

 gor, II, 276), apparently later removing to Little Shippegan. Later, about 

 1825, Louis Gauthier and others from France settled at Grande Plaine, 

 while about 1830 Andrew Wilson, an emigrant from Scotland by way 

 of Miramichi, settled with his family at Wilson's Point, and a few 

 other English-speaking settlers also came to Miscou Harbour about the 

 same time. Acadians from neighbouring settlements gradually settled 

 on the Island, apparently after 1820, and, prior to 1879, a Free Grant 

 settlement was laid out there and taken up by them. (Loc. inf.; Adams, 

 16. A full and valuable account of this island in 1850 was given by 



