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276 Brunswick St. Anne de Beaupré. The Acadians have faith in its sacred well for the healing of physical affliction.

The Kent County fisheries are immensely productive, the waters of the Strait and the Gulf of St. Lawrence yielding oysters, clams, lobsters, and millions of pounds of mackerel and smelt. On either side of the Intercolonial main line, between Kent Junction and Chatham Junction are tracts teeming with trout streams. Toward the centre of the province are the big game forests traversed by the railway between Fredericton, Chatham and Loggieville.

Chatham, 11 miles from the Junction, is on the shores of Miramichi Bay, which widens from the mouth of the assembled Miramichi Rivers into the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Six thousand square miles of the huge, thinly populated square, whose four corners are Chatham Junction, McGivney JunctonJunction [sic], St. Leonards and Campbellton, are drained toward the sea by the Southwest, the Little Southwest and the Northwest Miramichi, which together form the second most important river system in this well watered province. Chatham is the most active shipping-port on this easterly coast, and together with Newcastle is an outfitting point for sportsmen going into the Miramichi preserve, whether it be for bass, trout, grilse or salmon, caribou, moose, deer, wolves, foxes or bear,