Edward Winslow 1746-1815
Edward, or Ned, Winslow gew up in Massachusetts. he was a man of means who loved British traditions. When the revolution came, he joined the British Army and went to Halifax where he became Muster Master General of all the British and Colonial troops.
After the revolution, he took it upon himself to find homes for the more than 6000 refugees arriving in Nova Scotia.
In 1783, he arrived at the mouth of the St. John River and was appalled by the lack of organization. Every where there were refugees, crowded, without proper provisions, starving and cold. He ordered surveys and began to hand out grants of land. Hw was so inspired that he explored 200 kilometers of the St. John River himself and came back with a dream of creating a Loyalist colonly north of the Bay of Fundy. His enthusiasm caught on and by 1784, a partition movement had formed and by June the provine of New Brunswick had been born.
- Great Canadian Lives: Portraits in Heroism to 1867, K. Ford, J. MacLean, and B. Wansbrough, Bryan Mills and Assoc. Ltd., Canada 1985-
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