- Flows southwest into Southwest Miramichi River, opposite Keenan.
- John McKenzie was a land grantee there.
- Flows southeast into Miramichi Inner Bay at Neguac.
- Named for John McKnight, from Scotland, first English-speaking settler there.
- Flows northeast into Tabusintac River.
- Probably named for Roderick McLeod (circa 1785-1864), settler 1803 from Scotland.
- Also John McLeod (1751-1823) settled in the area, 1803, from Scotland.
- North of Tuadook Lake.
- Named for Thomas George Loggie (1854-1931) New Brunswick Surveyor General.
- In Historians Range, east of South Branch Nepisiguit River.
- Named by W.F. Ganong 1903 for Beamish Murdoch (circa1800-1876), author of “History of Nova Scotia”, 1867.
- 3 miles south-east of Chatham. Post office from 1880s to 1960s.
- First settlers were largely of Scottish extraction, coming to the community before 1830, many from Dumfrieshire.
- Named for the river of the same name which runs through the community on its way to Napan Bay and then Miramichi Bay.
- Shire town of Northumberland County. Post office from 1823.
- Incorporated 1899; Amalgamated in 1995 to form part of City of Miramichi.
- Named for Thomas Pelham Holmes, Duke of Newcastle.
- Local politics dominated by Scottish merchants and shipbuilders in early years.
- Scottish mason William Murray built several local landmarks.
- Flows northeast into Renous River.
- Named for Norman R. Nicholson, a land grantee, son of Robert Nicholson Sr, tanner and currier; b. Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
- Established 1814.
- Settled 1785, spreading as far as Tomogonops River in 1819.
- Probably named for William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk (1758-1831), then prominent in the British Navy, admiral in 1821.
- Adjacent to Miramichi Bay at Escuminac.
- Named for William Preston, settler in 1810 from Scotland, who was ship-wrecked on Fox Island.
- Also called Guimond Beach.
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