CAMPBELLTON

city, Restigouche county, northern New Brunswick, Canada, on the Restigouche Estuary (there bridged to Pointe--la-Croix, Quebec). It is overlooked by the Sugarloaf Mountain, the focus of a provincial park. Founded about 1793 as Martin's Point by Scottish fishermen, it was renamed in 1833 for Sir Archibald Campbell, lieutenant governor of the province. The English defeated the French offshore in the Battle of the Restigouche (1760), the last naval engagement of the French and Indian Wars. The head of river navigation, Campbellton developed as a pulpwood- and lumber-shipping port. It was largely rebuilt after a disastrous fire in 1910. Its salmon fisheries attract many anglers. Inc. town, 1888; city, 1958. Pop. (1991) 8,699.