Archive for: York

Stanley

September 6, 2022/in York/by NBSCA

Settlers from the failed settlement of Scottish Settlement (1835), 6 miles south of Stanley, moved to Stanley after the first winter.

Tay Creek

September 6, 2022/in York/by NBSCA

5 miles southwest of Stanley, at North Tay River.
Post Office Tay Settlement 1862-1918.

Tay Falls

September 6, 2022/in York/by NBSCA

4 miles south of Stanley on Tay River. Post Office 1905-1914.
Formerly called Scotch Glen.

Tay Mills

September 6, 2022/in York/by NBSCA

7 miles south of Stanley, on South Tay River.
Post Office 1862-1914.

Tay River

September 6, 2022/in York/by NBSCA

Flows southeast into Nashwaak River.
Named by Jacobina Drummond Campbell, wife of Dugald Campbell, for River Tay in Scotland.

Lake George

September 6, 2022/in York/by NBSCA

19 miles southwest of Fredericton.
Post Office circa 1885-1914.
Formerly named Scotch Settlement, named by George McGeorge.
Includes Donnelly Settlement named for John and Patrick Donnelly, land grantees there.

Taymouth

September 6, 2022/in York/by NBSCA

15 miles north of Fredericton at the mouth of the Tay River.
Dugald Campbell, a land grantee there, called his estate Taymouth.
Post Office Nashwaak 1848-1898; Post Office Middle Nashwaak 1898-1904; Post Office Taymouth from 1904.

McAllister Cove

September 6, 2022/in York/by NBSCA

Adjacent to Spednic Lake.
Japhet and William McAllister had land grants there.

Tweedie Lake

September 6, 2022/in York/by NBSCA

In Dumfries Parish.
Named for a Scottish shoemaker on the Saint John River in the 1800s who fished there.

McBean Brook

September 6, 2022/in York/by NBSCA

Flows east into Nashwaak River, 1 mile south of Taymouth.
Probably named for Angus McBean, Loyalist of 42nd (Black Watch) Regiment.
John and Richard McBean also had grants there.
In Maliseet Babkwelgwadekbegwesiniak.