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wicke, Elgin, Bufferin ; British victories arc commemorated in Alma, 

 Inkerman and Kars, and a victor in Haveloch, a heroine in the settle- 

 ment Florenceville ; a roj^al visitor in Rothesay, and a royal Duke in 

 Cambridge. Place-names of Great Britain are repeated in Dumbarton, 

 Canterbiiry, Waterford, SoiitJiesk. and ])0ssibly Dnnmnond. Governors of 

 the province are honoured in Manner s-i^ut ton and Gordon. But of names 

 distinctively our own the list is even longer ; thus New Maryland, North- 

 field, Acadieville, WHmot, Bogerville, McAdam, Simonds, (Carleton), 

 and the adoption as parishes of >S^^ Croix, Lepreau, North Lake, Ship- 

 pegan. Grand Falls, Hammond, and the settlement Gibson ; and as well 

 the names of the French parishes, St. Louis, St. Mary, St. Isidore, St. 

 Paul, St. Basil, St. Leonard, St. Amis, St. Jacques, St. Milaire, St. 

 Francis. 



Confederation, the most important event of the province's recent 

 history, has left no record in its place-nomenclature. 



At different times since 1850 the local Government has made vigorous 

 efforts to promote immigration, and to that end has laid out large blocks 

 of land for settlement, at the same time giving them names. Thus in 

 1856 the following were laid out : Balmoral, Clarendon, Campbell, Connell, 

 Peltoma, and also several of which the names have not survived, as 

 Medisco, Breadalbane, Trafalgar, Monteagle, Bayfield and Blackwood; 

 the latter seems to survive in a lake in Albert. It is said at the Crown 

 Land ottice that these names were largely suggested by Moses Perley, 

 and if so, he has given more names that now survive in New Brunswick 

 thtm any other man ; they are ])artly for men and events of the time in 

 England, partl}^ proper to New Brunswick. Their positions are shown 

 upon Wilkinson's map. Other settlements were established under the 

 Labour Act of 1868, and again under the Free Grants Act of 1879 ; such 

 were Colebrook (now Cold brook), Sujmyside, Jiobertville, MiUville, Fac- 

 quetteville, St. Isidore, Pleasant Ridge, Acadieville, Adamsville, Beacons- 

 Held, Cloverdale, Beaufort, Chapmanville, Kintore, Kincardine, New 

 Denmark, Red Rapids, Stonehaven, Tilley, Sisson Ridge, Commeau Ridge, 

 Patrieville, and others which were never settled or of which the names 

 have been changed. It will be noticed how very local these later settle- 

 ment-names are ; the majority are named for men or families prominent 

 in the vicinity only, though a few as Tilley, Colebrooke, Beaconsfield, are 

 men of note. Other settlements of this" period are JohnviUe, Glassville, 

 Knoivlesville, all three founded by clergymen, settled under their 

 direction, and named for them. In addition to these many other small 

 settlements have grown up and taken names for the most different 

 reasons, as Arthuret, Hartland, and the made-up ddlina and Grafton, 

 but these are mostly too local foi- particular mention. 



The building of railroads since 1856, introduced a need for many 

 names for stations ; these have been mostly local names, but often new 



