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Gloucester, and for English places as in X/icerpool, and perhaps Coverdale^ 

 which seem to he from the English places. Douglas and Saumarez honour 

 a governor and an administrator of the province, while Shediac, and in 

 a wa}' St. James, are the only ones with a native flavour. During this 

 time also there was much activity in surveying for highway roads in the 

 province, and these survoj's established many of the minor nomenclature 

 along their routes ; such were the St. John-St. Andrews road of 1816^ 

 the Nerepis-Fredericton road of 1826. the Fredericton-St. Andrews road 

 of 1836, etc. Alter 1814 certain disbanded regiments were settled on the 

 upper St, John, and one of these, the West India Eangers, gave name to 

 Ramjer Settlement. Probably at this time, too, originated the names of' 

 some of the Acadian settlements, from the family names of the settlers, 

 as Gueijeti, Belliveau, etc. Here also belongs Boiestown. 



About 1830 began the struggle for responsible government, which 

 ended about 1850 ; it soon showed its etïects in parish names. Blissjield, 

 Blackcille, Blissville, Chipman were no doubt given to honour those men 

 as administrators of the province, as was Harvey for a governor, while 

 others were honoured in the settlements of Campbellton, Colehrook (Grand 

 Falls) and Edmnndston. An appreciation of the labours of residents of the 

 province, however, is shown in Slmonds, Uphaîii, Petersville, Johnston, 

 and in another way in Studholm ; increasing native pride is shown in 

 the adoption of J/r/rfa//Y/.v7,7/, .h'estit/ouche, ('araqiictte, and the change of 

 LiverjDOol to RicJiibiicto. But admiration for Englishmen must have 

 been less active, for aside from the county Albert, and Stanley given by 

 an English land compan}', the only names of parishes not given for resi- 

 dents of New Brunswick are for governoi's of Canada, Colborne and 

 Durham. We could scarcely have a better illustration of the state of 

 feeling towards the authorities in England at that time. But place - 

 names of (Ireat Britain were still musical to New Brunswick ears as 

 Dumfries, Southampton, Andover, Perth, Wichloio, Weldford, Brujhton 

 all show. During this time many parts of the province were surveyed, 

 for settlement, for lumber interests, in connection with the settlement of 

 the international boundaries, for military roads and railroads, etc., 

 and many country lines were run. Thus the Nepisiguit was surveyed 

 in 1832, the Tobique in 1838, the upper Miramichi in 1831, and 

 these surveys established the minor nomenclature. The due north line 

 from the source of the St. Croix to above Grand Falls, had been run in 

 1819, and between 1830 and 1842 several expeditions sent out by the 

 British Crovernment and by the boundary commissioners explored the 

 region in extension of that line to the highlands near the St. Lawrence. 

 The nomenclature of the smaller streams in that region belongs doubt- 

 less to that time, and between 1840 and 1860 many surveys were made 

 to find a route for a land military road or railroad from Halifax to 

 Quebec, including that by Alexander in 1844. The names of the Upper 



