Chapter 3

This Town in the 1800 was known in every port in every free country.

Prosperity was not a dream in this Town, it was everyone’s reality.

Picture seven square-rigged vessels sailing up and down the Richibucto river one morning; their sails billowing in the wind as if to whisper "River of Fire, we salute you". «picture»

Such an account was recorded in the" Richibucto Review " While our neighbors to the South were becoming worn out with names like Bull Run, Vicksburg and Gettysburg; we were carving a piece of history that the world will never forget. The first to deal in square timber on the Richibucto was Mansell and McGuire, who came here from Saint John in 1805. This was fifteen years before John Jardine built the "Ellen Douglas" and started the timber trade in a vast way. Other businesses were also prospering. McGuire later started farming on a large scale and cleared all the land on what came to be known as Chandler’s Point. This Point is back of Morgan Distillery. It had been know as the Os Mundle Farm and at first it was the site of a huge Micmac fort. George Pagon and Thomas Powell started the first fishing business at Pagan’s Point. (This was directly across the river from Chandler's Point).