APPENDIX. 



Sources of Information. 



The facts upon which the present work is founded are drawn from 

 three sources, which, in the order of their importance, are, — personal 

 investigation of localities, testimony of residents near the localities, and 

 documentary records. It will be convenient to consider these in inverse 

 order. 



No single work has yet attempted to cover this subject, but most of 

 the jjapers upon our local history, of which a gratifj'ingly large number 

 have appeared within the past few years, contain at least references to it. 

 I have tried to acknowledge the assistance of all these in their proper 

 places. The most complete account of locations of historic sites in New 

 Brunswick is that for the Passaraaquoddy region in the " Courier Series " 

 (see Bibliograph}' later), a work deserving far more permanence and 

 accessibility than its appearance in a newspaper allows. Rev. W. O. 

 Eaymond, at present New Brunswick's most active and successful his- 

 torical investigator, gives due attention to this subject of historic sites in 

 most of his writings. Yery important are maps, particularly the large 

 scale original survey maps, of which there are many in the Crown Land 

 Office at Fredericton, and several of particular value in the Public Eecord 

 Office and in the British Museum in London. It is rather a remarkable 

 fact about many of the latter maps that no copies of them exist in the 

 Crown Land Office at Fredericton, though the maps which are there are 

 in admirable order and easily accessible. For books relating to the 

 province, one turns naturally to the Legislative Library at Fredericton, 

 but here he is doomed to bitter disappointment. This library, which 

 ought to be above everything a repository of books relating to New 

 Brunswick, really lacks such works almost utterly, and its chief useful- 

 ness to the historian consists in furnishing an illuminating example of 

 Avhat a Legislative Library ought not to be. The works consulted in such 

 studies as this must therefore be sought in libraries abroad. 



Very many of the facts in this paper have been obtained from resi- 

 dents near the sites described, and such assistance has, I think, always been 

 acknowledged in the proper place. I wish, however, among these corres- 

 pondents to mention particularly Rev. J. R. Doucet, of L'Amec, Mr. S. C. 

 "W. Chapman, of Dorchester, and Mr. D. Lewis, of Escuminac. It is really 

 surprising to find how willing most men are to respond to inquiries con- 



