Archive for: Restigouche

• Established in 1885 by Isle of Arran settlers.

• 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.

• Post Office from 1831. Shire town of Restigouche County 1837. Town incorporated 1905.
• Probably named by Sir Howard Douglas in 1826 for James Andrew Brown Ramsay, 10^th Earl and 1^st Marquis of Dalhousie (1812-1860), Gov. Gen. of Canada, 1819-1828, who visited there when the place was named.
• In Mi’kmaq Sigadomkuk, possibly ‘place of bright stones and many shells’.

• 6 miles southwest of Dalhousie.
• Post Office 1862-1957. Also Post Office Shannonvale circa 1885-1956.
• Settled by Scottish circa 1830.

• 9 miles southwest of Campbellton. Post Office Glenlivet circa 1889-1967.
• Named by John Wright for Glenlevit in Scotland.