Settled by people from the Isle of Arran in 1826, the first European settlers in the area.
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Probably named by John Hamilton, settler from Arran, Scotland, 1831.
A frigate built during World War II was named Inch Arran for the point.
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Post Office from 1845. Incorporated as town 1888, as city 1958.
Named by Robert Ferguson 1833, for Sir Archibald Campbell (1769-1843) Lieut. Governor of New Brunswick 1831-1837.
Earlier called Cavenick’s Point (or Kavanagh’s Point), named for a settler from Ireland in 1816; later Quinton’s Point; then Martin’s Point for a shipbuilder.
In Mi’kmaq, Wisiamkik, ‘muddy place’ in reference to stirring of sediment there in the narrowing of the Restigouche.
Probably site of Petite Rochelle, Acadian village established in 1757, destroyed by British in 1760.
