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The late Senator Glasier began his lumbering operations on the Shogomoc in York county, and afterwards, in company with his brother Stephen, extended them to the waters of the upper St. Jolin. He was the first lumberman to bring a "drive" over the Grand Falls, and is said to have been the first white man to explore the Squatook lakes. He died at Ottawa in his 84th year, during the session of 1894, while engaged in the discharge of his parliamentary duties. It is a curious fact that the expression, "He is the main John Glasier!" once so familiar on the St. John river, is today commonly heard in Minnesota and other western States, and few who hear it have any idea of its origin. It was probably carried to the west by some of the St. John river lumbermen who migrated thither.

It is a remarkable circumstance that the present members for the county of Sunbury in the New Brunswick legislature, Parker Glasier, and J. Douglas Hazen, are great-grandsons, respectively, ot Benjamin Glasier and John Hazen, old neighbors and worthy residents of Sunbury one hundred and twenty years ago. At that time Sunbury included nearly the whole of the province, now it is a very modest little constituency.

The last paper of this series told the story of our first provincial election in November, 1785, in the course of which John Hazen correctly predicted defeat for James Simonds and Nehemiah Beckwith at the hands of the Loyalist candidates Hubbard and Vandeburg. John Hazen, however, was not competent to predict that his own great-grandson (who by the way is Nehemiah Beckwith's great-grandson also) would be elected to represent the old historic county of Sunbury in the year of our Lord 1899.

Before concluding this series of papers it will be well to take a parting glance at Portland Point and its environments at the time of the arrival of the Loyalists. The