Hello,   I'm just discussing on the Maine List why some people left Washington County, Maine, to move over to Canterbury, York Co., New Brunswick.      I looked on-line and there could have been several reasons,  including the fact that in 1865 "9000 British Troups" were moving through that town - on their way to other Provinces.   My ancestor, George Freeman WILKINS, was a Maine resident,  but he married Mary NEAL from New Brunswick during the 1830's.    During the 1850's, they from Maine to Canterbury, N.B.    They had 10 children, some born ME, some born NB.      During 1870's some of the family moved back to ME after Mary died.     When I was looking for information on the Town of Canterbury,  I came across Ruby Cusack's web site.     She has had an informative web site since 1998, and you can place queries there.     I discovered one of my old queries there, but it looks like I posted it almost 10 yrs. ago.    :o)     When I looked around the site,  I found this page:   http://www.rubycusack.com/issue487.html   In the publication “Obligation and Opportunity”- Single Maritime Women in Boston, 1870-1930  the author Betsy Beattie examines the lives of single Maritime women who left to work in Boston between 1870 and 1930, using oral interviews, diaries, letters, written recollections, census data, and other historical sources. In the 1880 census more than four thousand single women from the Maritime Provinces were living in Boston and in the 1910 census there were more than seven thousand single English-Canadian women living there.   Attending church provided an opportunity for social life. Alice Peck of Nova Scotia met John Edgar McKay at the Adventist Church in Roxbury. But the 1901 marriage was short lived as John died four years later, leaving a young son. Maritime girls often went to the Boston area to take their training to be nurses. ...  My grandfather's 2nd wife was probably one of those women, but her story was slightly different.    She had left her New Brunswick husband and a young son there when she came to Boston.    I don't remember the year at this moment, but it was probably 1910-1920.     She remarried in Boston to Charles BEDELL and had 4 more children.    They were divorced early on,  and in early 1936 she was marrying my grandfather.    He and his first wife, my grandmother, had divorced in 1935, but had probably separated in ~1933.   ..  And, on the Nova Scotia List 4-5 yrs. ago a long-time Lowell, MA, researcher posted a lot of information from the records of the Tewkbury State Hospital.    She (the late researcher) got interested in all the women from N.S.  who came down to Boston - and ended up in that Hospital.    A good many of them were pregnant and came down to Boston to "find"  the man who got her pregnant.   Just an FYI for you.   Betty            (near Lowell, MA)