Scotch Settlement

  • 10 miles north of Moncton. Post Office circa 1885-1935.
  • Settled circa 1835 by immigrants from Scotland and Cape Breton.

Scotch Settlement

  • 13 miles west of Fredericton and 3 miles northeast of Scotch Lake.
  • Post Office Mactaquack 1849-1904; Post Office Christies 1904-1916, George P. Christie, postmaster.

Scotch Ridge

  • 8 miles northwest of St. Stephen. Post Office circa 1885-1921.
  • Settled 1804 by Reay Fencibles from Sutherland, Scotland.
  • Formerly called Chiputneticook Ridge.

Scotch Lake

  • 16 miles west of Fredericton. Post Office circa 1885-1915.
  • Settled 1820 by immigrants from Roxburgh and Dumfries, Scotland.
  • In 1820 the lake had a Maliseet name meaning ‘partridge’.

Saint John

  • Although not a Scottish settlement, there were many immigrants from Scotland who remained in Saint John after arriving by boat in the harbour.
  • Also known as the Loyalist City, many of the Loyalists were of Scottish origins.
  • The Saint Andrew’s Society of Saint John, founded in 1798, is the oldest such society in Canada.

Saint Andrews

  • Shire town of Charlotte County 1786.
  • Post Office from circa 1829. Town incorporated 1903.
  • A tradition is that a French priest called St-André celebrated mass there or a priest landed there on the day of St. Andrew.
  • Formerly called Connosquamcook from the Passamaquoddy Maliseet, ‘end of gravelly bar place’.

River Don

  • Flows northwest from Long Lake to Right Hand Branch Tobique River, at its junction with the River Dee.
  • Named by H.M.G. Garden 1836 for River Don, Aberdeen, Scotland.

River Dee

  • Flows northwest from Trousers Lake to Right Hand Branch Tobique River.
  • Probably named by H.M.G. Garden 1836 for River Dee, in Aberdeen, Scotland.

Ramsay Brook

  • Flows northeast into Southeast Upsalquitch River.
  • Possibly named for H. and P. Ramsay, pioneer lumber exporters at Dalhousie.

Preston Beach

  • 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.