Origin unknown; possibly named for Loch Carron in Scotland or for a French family.
Spelled ‘Carron Point’ for the point, but ‘Caron Point’ for the community.
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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’.
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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.
Named for John Campbell, grantee of land from Scotland, who was drowned crossing to Shippegan.
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Named for John Campbell, grantee of land from Scotland, who was drowned crossing to Shippagan.
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