When James Percy Mitton was born on 17 January 1887, in Bayfield, Botsford, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada, his father, William Andrew Mitton, was 28 and his mother, Margaret 'Maggie' Ann Cole, was 21. He married Bessie Maude Allen on 25 October 1905, in Port Elgin, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. He lived in Botsford, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada in 1891 and Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada for about 10 years. He died in 1973, in New Brunswick, Canada, at the age of 86, and was buried in Moncton, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada.
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July 4, 1901, the Hartland covered bridge was finished. It spans across the Saint John River, making it the longest covered bridge. Until it was built, the only way across the river was by ferry.
August 20, 1937, the Miramichi lumber strike took place. Over 1,500 millworkers and longshoremen struck 14 lumber firms for wage increases.
In 1955, New Brunswick broke the record with a freezing temperature of -47.2° C, in Sisson Dam
English (Lancashire and Yorkshire): habitational name from any of the places in Lancashire, Yorkshire, and the West Midlands, so named in Old English as ‘farmstead at a river confluence’, from (ge)m̄ȳthe ‘river confluence’ + tūn ‘farmstead, estate’.
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