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Ortonville is an unincorporated farming community located at a bend of the Saint John River seven miles south of Grand Falls, New Brunswick. It is on the west side of the river, 5.7km north, north east of Limestone, New Brunswick.〔Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, "Place Names of New Brunswick", "Ortonville" ("Ortonville" ) accessed 31 March 2012〕 Geographical coordinates are 46°57'29" North and 67°40'48" West.〔("Ortonville, New Brunswick Maps" ) accessed 31 March 2012〕 ==History== The earliest〔Joseph Bouchette, ("1815 Map of the route from Halifax to Riviere du Loup" ), (W. Faden, London, August 1815) as found at C. Gagnon, www.upperstjohn.com, accessed 2 April 2012. Note the reference to "RVB Settlers - Salmon Rr" in the detail from the map〕 British, and probably the earliest European, settlement at or very near Ortonville was across the river at Salmon River Settlement. In May 1814 British North American surveyor-general Joseph Bouchette settled two military families here at the direction of Governor Sir George Prevost. Sensitive to the presence of the recently hostile United States nearby, Prevost wanted a communication route from Fredericton to Upper and Lower Canada to serve as an alternative if the St. Lawrence River were to freeze. The two settled families at the Salmon River had been disbanded from the Tenth or Fourth Royal Veteran's Battalion and together with other military settlers formed a series of widely dispersed stations along the Saint John River. Three families were here by 1817.〔Mori Hillman, ("David Anderson" ) accessed 1 April 2012. The Tenth was renumbered as the Fourth shortly before disbanding. 〕 Early families included Hitchcock, McLaughlin, and Gallagher〔Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, Cadestral map,("Place Names of New Brunswick", "Ortonville" ) accessed 31 March 2012〕 who settled here before Ortonville received a name separate from the Salmon River Settlement.〔Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, ("Hutchinson Directories" ) , accessed 1 April 2012〕 The Benjamin Hitchcock, Jr., family petitioned for land here in 1862,〔Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, ("RS108 :: Index to Land Petitions: Original Series, 1783-1918" ) Microfilm F6649, 1862 accessed 1 April 2012〕 and settled here by 1865.〔Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, ("Hutchinson Directories" ) , accessed 1 April 2012〕 A post office was located in private homes of six different postmasters between 1883 and 1964, all members of the Gallagher, Hitchcock, and McLaughlin families.〔Library and Archives Canada, ("Post Offices and Post Masters - Ortonville" ) accessed 1 April 2012. The last postmistress, the late Mrs. Muriel Merritt, was daughter of Albert Victor Hitchcock and great granddaughter of Benjamin Hitchcock, Jr.〕 "In 1898 Ortonville was a flag station on the Canadian Pacific Railway and a settlement with a population of 75."〔Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, ("Place Names of New Brunswick", "Ortonville" ) accessed 31 March 2012〕 A cable ferry was located here in the first half of the twentieth century. Perley Hitchcock and then George Gallagher ran a small store at the foot of the ferry hill on the Albert Victor Hitchcock farm in the 1920s and 1930s. There was a two room schoolhouse in the 1930s and 1940s. The Ortonville Baptist church〔("Bruce C. Stark" ) In: "Memorials", JETS 35/1 (March 1992) 140-142, accessed 13 April 2012〕 was organized in 1861〔(Ortonville Baptist Sign ) accessed 13 April 2012〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ortonville, New Brunswick」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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