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Historic Sites. 



description of this route is fully confirmed by early plans I have 

 since found in the Crown Land Office. One of these, given herewith, 

 Map No. 7, a survey of 1809, shows in detail a survey of a blazed 

 path from John Keith's lot on rWashademoac through J. Humphrey's 

 lot on the present Prices Brook, and thence to Petitcodiac " near old 

 Blakeney." It is easy to show, by comparison of this with a modern 

 plan, that this blazed path, without doubt the portage path, closely 

 follows the modern road. An account of the old French route from 

 Quebec to Beausejour via this portage is cited by Raj^mond, St Johh 

 River, 112. 



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Map No, 7. From a Plan of 1809; x \. 



A reputed old French Road from the mouth of Anagance via 

 Riders Brook to Cumberland Bay on Grand Lake is discussed later 

 under the English period. 



248. The Memramcook-Westcock portage is cited from a French document of 

 1753 by Raymond (St John River, 112). Its course is thus described in 

 a newspaper article (St. John Sun, Aug. 3, 1904) " the trail of the 

 Dorchester Indians was up the Palmer Brook, down Bulmer Brook, 

 out to Wood Point at Sackville. " 



The portage from Salisbury or Rougie Bay to Shepody waters is 

 mentioned in the Calhoun Diary of 1771, as running from the river 

 just west of Cape Enrage into Shepody River. This, however, must 

 have been in addition to a j)ortage from Waterside directly to the 

 Lake. 



248. There are references to the Salmon River- Richibucto portage in Baillie's 

 New Brunswick, 39, and in Cockburns's Report of 1827, 91, where 

 the length is given as 220 chains. Perley, in the " New Brunswick 

 Courier " for Nov. 1^ 1837 tells of passing over this portage, which 

 he gives as three miles long. He also describes the long portage, 

 nine miles long, apparently used when the water was low, and its 

 course is shown on a plan in the Crown Land Office. Another plan 

 given herewith (Map No. 8) showing the short portage in some detail 

 places it a little west of the course shown on the map in the Mono- 

 graph, leading from close to the mouth of Cordie Brook directly into 

 the angle of the Richibucto. 



