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Harvey Settlement, York County, New Brunswick
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The Harvey Settlement (now known as Harvey or Harvey Station), southwest
of Fredericton, owes its origin to a second party of Northumberland
and Borders immigrants recruited for Stanley by the New Brunswick
Land Company. Upon their arrival in 1837 they found the Company
commissioner absent, and discovered that the Company's inducements
had been exaggerated. They appealed to the Legislature and to
theGovernor, Sir John Harvey, to be permitted to purchase land
outside the Company's territory. They were given work on the new
St. Andrew's Road and the right to draw lots upon it, in the community
that would bear the Governor's name. The party of 154 had arrived
at Saint John from Berwick-upon-Tweed aboard the snow Cornelius,
and hailed mostly from Northumberland, many being from the town
of Wooler or its rural environs.
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