Pemberton Ridge, New Brunswick

Pemberton Ridge is a Canadian rural community in North Lake Parish, York County, New Brunswick.

It is situated 6 kilometres north of Forest City on a hill overlooking East Grand Lake and Spednic Lake. Today the community is home to a population of approximately 5 residents.

History
See also: History of New Brunswick and List of historic places in York County, New Brunswick

In the early 1860s it was called "Skedaddle Ridge" because of settlers from Maine who fled there to avoid draft into the American Civil War. Some of the settlers include the Leeman and MacKenney families, of which descendants are still living there. In its heyday, Pemberton Ridge probably had a population of 15–20 families comprising 75–100 residents.

The community had a post office from 1872 to 1877[1] and thereafter relied on services in Forest City, as well as rural delivery. The farming community did not have a church but did have a school house and occasionally church services were held in that building. While the larger centers of Canterbury, (34 kilometres) or Danforth (30 kilometres) provided access to the Canadian Pacific Railway, as well as other commodities such as farm supplies and consumer items, Forest City was the service centre for the community.

Church and Sunday school was usually held in the school house, although residents would occasionally attend a meeting at Green Mountain or Forest City. Predominantly Baptists by faith, meetings or services as they were sometimes called, contained an aura of quiet tranquility and not given to emotional renditions, testimonial or otherwise.

Notable people
Main article: List of people from York County, New Brunswick
gollark: I hope "mIPS" is a typo and it's actually MIPS.
gollark: This accursed in-browser x86 emulator is surprisingly responsive as long as you do no IO ever.
gollark: I assume it just uses normal hashmap things™.
gollark: ?tag not found
gollark: Meanwhile, I... slightly refactored the markdown parsing code for my thing?

See also

References
  1. "Pemberton Ridge". Where is Home? New Brunswick Communities Past and Present. Provincial Archives of New Brunswick. Retrieved 28 May 2012.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.