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In 1816, four men and their families left the Scottish highlands to make better lives for themselves in the colonies of British North America. After spending a brief time in Lower Canada, they settled near Buctouche in eastern New Brunswick. They obtained grants of land and proceeded to cut farms from the forests previously inhabited by Micmac natives. By times they called their settlement Glenelg in memory of the Scottish parish they had left, and by times they called it Black River after the valley in which it was situated.
By the end of the 19th century the tide of Scottish settlers to the area had ebbed, and many had moved away to more prosperous parts of the province, country, and continent. The Acadians who had colonized the area two hundred years before the Scots remained after they left, and what was briefly Glenelg became St-Pierre-de-Kent -- a name which it retains today. The river is still officially "Black River". It lies in Wellington Parish of Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada.
The author of this website is descended from David MacIntosh, one of those four men. According to tradition handed down in the family, David arrived in Canada with his widowed mother Euphemia, his new bride Betsey, and all of his grown brothers and sisters, most of whom settled in Kent County as well. Reconciling this tradition with the documentary evidence has been tricky, but here are some of the fruits of that research:
Other families of eastern New Brunswick which appear in my research include ANDERSON, BIGGS, BOYCE, CAMERON, FOWLIE, FRASER, GIRVAN, HYSLOP, MCNAIRN and WARD. I welcome e-mail from any researchers working on these families.
Google Maps enables a startlingly good view of the area derived from recent satellite photos.
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This page last updated 2005 Sept 15.