Village Historique de Rexton / Rexton Historic Village

English: , The village of Rexton was founded in 1825 and officially incorporated, as a village, in 1966. Rexton's population had reached 908 according to the 1996 census. Rexton is located in Southeastern New Brunswick, near the mouth of the Richibucto River., Between 1787 and 1810 most of the French Acadian settlers had reclaimed and settled on their original sites along the mouth of the Richibucto River in settlements like Richibucto Cape and Richibouctou-Village. This would mean the soon to arrive English, Scotch and Irish would settle further up the Richibucto River., John Jardine is credited with the founding of Rexton when he built the first house here in 1825. Rexton was named Kingston until 1901 when it was renamed by simply changing "King" in the original name to the equivalent in Latin "Rex"., Rexton (Kingston) was first settled by the Scotch people from Annan, Galloway and other parts of the shires of Dumfries and Kircudbright. With the arrival of the Scotch people and the abundance of large white pine, the Richibucto River attained a new importance with the establishment of milling operations. Soon a substantial shipbuilding business, second only to St-John, N.B., had evolved under the leadership of John Jardine., Rexton is also the birthplace of Andrew Bonar Law, the only prime minister of Britain to have been born outside the British Isles. His father, James Law, purchased the 22 acre farm in 1850 and here he established the new Presbyterian Manse. The Bonar Law Historic Park has been developed to commemorate the birthplace of Bonar Law.,