Pioneers, Ploughs, and Politics: New Brunswick Planned Settlements
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Survey sketch of lands in Victoria County showing timber lands, New Brunswick Railway Company grants, and lands granted for the Stonehaven, Kintore, New Denmark, and other settlements. – [1874]. – 1 sketch : pen and ink ; 92 x 66 cm. The locations of the Johnville, Glassville, Moose Mountain, California, and Ennishone settlements are also shown, as well as the Indian Reserve, Grand Falls, and the Central Bank Company lands. Timber licenses are in red, granted lands in green, and New Brunswick Railway grants in white. MC300-MS43-29 York-Sunbury Historical Society collection, PANB.
Letter from Attorney General George E. King to A. Inches, clerk of the Crown Lands Office. – 18 July 1872. – 4 pp. of textual records. King informs Inches that Captain Brown and Robert Stewart are in the province searching for suitable land for the proposed colony and stresses that the government is “extremely anxious to do everything to forward the movement”. He also informs Inches that the visitors require approximately “30,000 acres of land with room for still further expansion” and requests that Inches send one of his competent deputies with them. In closing, King comments “To me it appears of supreme importance that we should at once lay hold of an enterprise which promises so much”. MC42-MS3-H-266 B. R. Stevenson fonds, Charlotte County Archives.
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