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New Canaan, — Q. Loyalist expansion settlement, formed in 1792 by George 

 Price and 15 Loyalist families from the St. John, all Baptists, attracted 

 here by the superior intervale lands. The settlement has grown and 

 prospered down to the present day, sending off branches to Butternut 

 Ridge and elsewhere in the vicinity. (History fully related in St. 

 John Sun, July 27, 1892; there is also a history of the Church here, by 

 Rev. George Brown, privately printed, 1903; Alexander, L'Acadie, II, 

 146; the Council Records, Land Memorials, preserved at Fredericton, 

 under August 2, 1799, read: " Seth Bryant and George Webb Price 

 represent that they with others, being 16 heads of families and 2 single 

 men, commenced a settlement in the year 1792 thirty-two miles above 

 the Narrows on the Washdemoak river, that they have made large 

 improvements," etc.). 



New Cannaway, — Q. (or S.). Temporary name, 1823, for one of the settlements 

 north of Grand Lake. (C. R.). 



Newcastle, — Q. Settled at its mouth by Loyalists in 1784, and gradually up 

 the stream by their expansion. Some coal mining, in limited amount, 

 is done here. On the upper part and vicinity are some immigrants, 

 chiefly Irish. 



Newcastle, — N. Parish est. 1786. Settled originally along the Miramichi, prior 

 to 1785, by early Scotch immigrants, joined after the Revolution by 

 some Loyalists, and, later, with the development of the timber trade, 

 by many Scotch and some Irish immigrants. 



The town of Newcastle, shire town of Northumberland, has grown 

 up mainly since the great fire of 1825, chiefly as a (steam) mill and 

 lumber shipping port; incorporated. (Cooney, 108; loc. inf. No history 

 of this important town has yet been published). 



New Denmark, — V. For a time called Hellerup. Recent Danish immigrant 

 settlement, formed under the Free Grants Act in 1873, by Danish fam- 

 ilies brought out by the New Brunswick Government. It has proven 

 a very prosperous colony. (A full history of the formation of the 

 settlement is in Stevenson's Emigration Reports for 1873, 1874; loc. 

 inf.; Adams, 26). 



Newfoundland, — M. Also called Grand Ruisseau, Acadian settlement, formed 

 about 1860 by expansion from the St. John. (Loc. inf.). 



New Norton, — A. Native expansion settlement, formed about 1798 by expan- 

 sion of native settlers from Horton, Nova Scotia. (Loc. inf.; Johnston, 

 N. A., II, 102; Ward, 12). 



New Ireland, — A. Early Irish immigrant settlement, formed on the Shepody 

 road, before 1830 (grants in that year). (Loc. inf.; Johnston, N. A., 

 II, 109; Lugrin, 109; St. John Sun, September 7, 1888). 



Also this name was applied in 1826 to some settlement twenty miles 

 from Gagetown. (S. P. G. Report, 1826). 



New Jersey, — N. Local name for Burnt Church village. 



New Jerusalem, — Q. Early Irish immigrant settlement, formed about 1821, 

 apparently on a part of Kemhle Manor. (Ward, 22; St. John Sun, July 

 27, 1892, under "Queens County"). 



