Calders Head

  • Extends into Passamaquoddy Bay.
  • Named for Walter G. Calder of Fairhaven, Deer Island, in the early 1800s.

Campobello Island

  • Named by William Owen, its grantee, 1770: “I named the Island Campobello, the latter partly complimentary and punning on the name of the governor of the Province, Lord William Campbell, and partly as applicable to the nature of the soil and fine appearance of the island…”
  • In Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Abahquit, ‘Lying parallel with the land’.

Colonel Brook

  • Flows southwest into Trout Lake, northeast of St. George.
  • Named for Hugh McKay (1751-1848) of St. George, lumberman, member of New Brunswick House of Assembly for 30 years and last full colonel in New Brunswick after 1793.

Basswood Ridge

  • 9 miles north of St. Stephen. Post Office 1854-1932.
  • Settled in 1803 by Scots from the Highlands.
  • Named for huge basswood trees formerly on ridge, one measuring 9 feet in circumference circa 1900.