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"Between 1772 and 1775, over 20 ships carrying more than 1,000 settlers from Yorkshire, England, arrived in Nova Scotia, which included Sackville and all present-day New Brunswick. Comprised predominantly of tenant farmers facing economic hardship in England, these Yorkshiremen uprooted families and possessions to make the perilous six-to-eight week sailing across the Atlantic in seek of a better livelihood and to lay new roots.
Among those first Yorkshire emigrants were members of the Bowser family, who settled on the very block of land where The York Building now sits. The Bowsers tended land in what is, today, the core of Sackville. The Bowser farm and its pastures spanned a large swath of land that stretched from Main Street up through Mount Allison University and beyond."
