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New Brunswick (British Colony)

1784 – 1867
ColonyNorth America

Carved out of Nova Scotia in 1784 to settle the flood of Loyalist refugees who poured up the Saint John River after the American Revolution.

A founding province of Canadian Confederation on 1 July 1867; its delegate Samuel Leonard Tilley helped name the new Dominion.

Borders in 1853 · drawn from 4 sourced border frames
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Borders over time

The atlas holds 4 border frames for New Brunswick (British Colony) — the shape you scrub through changes in 1784 · 1803 · 1843 · 1853.

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