Credit of this page Harvey Station - New Brunswick

In May of 1837 approximately 160 people set sail from Berwick, Scotland carrying all the aspirations and dreams of a new life in New Brunswick. The long journey ended in July when their boat anchored at the port city of Saint John. After enduring the hardships of the long voyage the new immigrants learned their land grants in the Parish of Stanley were no longer available.

    Undaunted, they boarded a steamer and sailed up the Saint John River to Fredericton, where their plight fell on the sympathetic ear of a young man named Lemuel A. Wilmot, and the Lieutenant Governor of the time, Sir John Harvey.

    The new immigrants were offered 50 acres of land per settler, with 50 acres in reserve on a tract of land Iying on the new road leading from Fredericton to St. Andrews. After spending the winter of 1837-38 in the Fredericton area 16 families began the trek to their new land, a distance of some 30 miles. Because the road could not yet support a wagon the new settlers walked the entire distance, carrying provisions and supplies on their backs. The long task of carving out a home began in earnest and according to historical accounts, the new community would be known as Harvey Settlement, in honor of the Lieutenant Governor.

    The rolling fields and pastures that became the working farms of the day still remain and stand as a monument to the perseverance and spirit of those early settlers.