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Moncton
1) - first settlement 1733 (by Acadian marshland farmers)
2) - settlement abandoned 1755 (Acadian deportation)
3) - resettlement by Pennsylvania Dutch immigrants 1766
4) - beginnings of urban growth 1847 (shipbuilding comes of age)
5) - first incorporation 1855
6) - disincorporation 1862 (shipbuilding collapse)
7) - reincorporation 1875 (rebirth as a railway town)
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