Editing Campbellton, New Brunswick (section)

===Battle of the Restigouche===

It was here that the [[Battle of the Restigouche]], the final naval battle between the English and French for the possession of North America during the [[Seven Years' War]], was waged in 1760. It marked a turning point for the settlement.
Robert Ferguson and the development of Campbellton and Atholville
owed their development to the enterprising immigrants from Scotland. In 1769, only nine years after the Battle of Restigouche, Scotsman Hugh Baillie and a partner set up a fur and salted salmon business on the site that would become Campbellton. The business was sold to London merchant John Shoolbred, who in 1773 established the first British settlement on the Restigouche. His agent, William Smith, brought over eight Scottish fishermen from Aberdeen, Scotland, to work for him. Two of these fishermen were John Duncan and Robert Adams, who brought their families with them as well. These two fishermen devoted themselves to the salmon fishing industry at Old Church Point, today Atholville. In 1794, a Scotsman from Perth named Alexander Ferguson settled in Martin's Point (Campbellton), where his brother Robert joined him two years later.

[[Image:Campbellton CNR.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Old Intercolonial Railway Station in Campbellton]]