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rilE TILMISCOUATA IIKGIOX. 



Tjct us now procood to anothor place iu the imrai'diato vicinity of 

 whori' vv«' now ari-, but oiu- of far grfatcr iniportanco and whosti progrtvss 

 is such that wo will sc" bi'forc long' iu a region still (Comparatively 

 (les<'rti'd, a new province arise incorporated in the old out! just as at Lake 

 Ti'uiiscamingue, at the present, time and Lake 8t. John in years past. I 

 mean thr back country of the county of Tc^miscouata, which for a long 

 distance borders ou the Province of New-Brunswick and almost touches 

 th.' State of Maint!. 



The county of Temiseouata occupies a large portion of the public 

 domain. It has seen, on the shore of th'> river, a place come into existence 

 and increase in size which, from its geographical position aiul the «combi- 

 Uiitioa of circumstances, is destined to become a commercial town of the 

 iirst order. That place is Frascrville, still also called Riviere-du-Loup, from 

 the name of the river whi(;h runs through it iu a sU('cessiou of «;ascades. 



For a long time there were no settlements in Temiscouatainrear of the 

 old seigjiiorial concessions, but, since the building of the Intercolonial 

 Railway and espi'cially since a large population of French Canadians has 

 settled on the River Saint John, which sei)arates New Brunswick from 

 Maine, an almost uninterrupted communi(!atiou has been established 

 between the interior of the county and the shore. The two portions met 

 each other half way, the Canadian parishes on the Saint John River 

 endeavoring to increase th"ir relations with Riviere-du-Loup and the 

 latt;'r on its side seekiug to stri;tch further and further backwards as th-^ 

 wants of colonization required. These mutual elForts to obtain un- 

 interrupted communication soon gave rise to the settlement of several 

 small groui)s in the must suitable spots. These groixi)s now constitute 

 parishes to the numbi'r of seven or eight, which extend, with slight 

 intervals of course, bi'tw.'cn Fraservilleand Edmundston the county town 

 of the county of Madawaska, in New Brunswick. The development of 

 the TiMuiscouata region will increase still more now that the new railway 

 betweeu Fraserville and Edinunston has come into operation. It is not 

 that the new parish's along the line can contribute very much to th ' 

 development of th ■ region, for these parish(\s are not very remarkable lor 

 the fertility of their soil and their prospecsts are limited, but this new 

 Temiseouata Railway brings the whole country in direct aud daily cara.- 

 inunicatiou with New lirunswick and the United States. 



More than half a centiiry ago, the Imperial Governin 'ut wishing to 

 forward its troops as rapidly as possible in winter from Halifax to Qu "bee, 

 had a military road opened which was for a long time the only means of 

 commu;iication through the fortssts of Temiseouata to New- Brunswick. 

 At the same tinu' the troops were cantoned at dilferent stations along the 

 road, amongst others at a place call 'd Fort Ingall, six miles from Lake 



