The Caledonian Society of Restigouche has unveiled a Scottish Settler’s Monument in the city of Campbellton, New Brunswick, in honour of the Arran emigrants who settled in Canada to escape the Highland clearances.
Local dignitaries and politicians attended the monument unveiling on Campbellton waterfront.
The monument of a mahogany Scotsman on the banks of the Restigouche River was completed after almost five years of fund-raising by the society, which felt it needed to honour the original settlers to the region who arrived by the boatload between 1829 and 1840, with 400 arriving in Restigouche Bay Chaleur District and 300 settling in the neighbouring province of Quebec.