0n the Kennebecasis River

was named after General Menckton, once l.ieutenant—(,}eneral of Nova Scotia, who had served at Louisbourg, served also as second in command under General \Volfe at the taking of Quebec. and who later was British Governor of New York.

Some of the early settlers of H The Bend,H as Moneton was then known, came from Philadelphia and the Delaware River in pre- revolutionary days. One of these early settlers built: a log home on the spot where now stands the railway round-house. Some United Empire Loyalists assisted in the settle- ment later on. The place had a gradual growth until 1872, when it commenced a new life by becoming an lntereolonial Railway centre, with work- shops, etc., and to—(lay, as a conse- quence, it is an important town, full of life and Vitality.

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