Date          

pre 1604     Maliseet settlements established in the area as the Maliseet used the St. John River and the

                    Nerepis for transportation

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1604            Champlain arrives and the French colony of Acadia established. He also names Grand Bay.



1621             James 1st of England grants present day NB to Sir William Alexander and called it Nova Scotia



1640-45        Acadian civil war



1713             Treaty of Utrecht gives NB to the French



1758            Colonel Robert Monkton and British soldiers destroy Acadian settlements on the St. John River



1760            French control of Acadia ended

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1783            Black and White Loyalists arrive and obtain land grants  including the Glazier grant



1786            Mount Hope farm built by Henry Nase

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1845             Irish potato famine leads to Irish immigrants arriving in Grand Bay 



1869             European and North American rail line opens with stations at Grand Bay, Pamdenec, Epworth

                     Park, Ingleside, Ononette, Hillandale, Westfield Beach, Lingley, Sagwa, and Nerepis



1998            Amalgamation of Grand Bay and Westfield





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