The following acts of incorporation relating to granite companies were passed by the General Assembly of New Brunswick in the 1870s. There were no other such acts from 1867 to 1890. Each of the companies was authorized to operate in Charlotte County, although some of them were permitted to have their head offices in Saint John or even outside of New Brunswick.

List of Companies
 

#	Company Name	Act  Reference	Date Passed	Office(s)
1	Saint George Red Granite Company	36 Vict., c. 86	April 14, 1873	Saint George and/or Saint John
2	Bay of Fundy Red Granite Company	36 Vict., c. 93	April 14, 1873	Saint George and/or Saint John
3	Victoria Red Granite Company of Saint George	37 Vict., c. 99	April 08, 1874	Saint George
4	Digdeguash Red Granite Company	38 Vict., c. 137	April 10, 1875	Lower Digdeguash
5	Utopia Red Granite Company of Saint George	38 Vict., c. 125	April 10, 1875	Saint George
6	New Brunswick Red Granite Company	39 Vict., c. 51	April 13, 1876	Saint George and/or Saint John
7	Lepreaux Red Granite and Freestone Company	39 Vict., c. 52	April 13, 1876	Lepreaux [sic]

Initial Shareholders

    Saint George Red Granite Company

1. Peter Cormack
2. James I. Fellows
3. Isaac Burpee
4. Stephen S. Hall
5. Charles H. Fairweather
6. John P. C. Burpee

    Bay of Fundy Red Granite Company

1. Jacob S. Brown
2. Abraam Volk
3. Charles C. Ward
4. John M. Moffit
5. George G. M. Glashan
6. Douglas Wetmore
7. B. C. Kenway
8. Charles W. Weldon

    Victoria Red Granite Company of Saint George

1. Arthur Hill Gillmor, Senior
2. Francis Hibbard, M. P. P.
3. Tobias S. Gillmor
4. Kinsman P. Gillmor
5. Eldorado Gillmor
6. Robert A. Stuart
7. James O'Brien
8. Thomas Moreland
9. Samuel Johnson
10. Charles McGee
11. Henry A. Smith
12. James E. Lynott
13. Edwin R. O'Brien
14. Daniel Gillmor

    Digdeguash Red Granite Company

1. Levi W. Young
2. George S. Grimmer
3. Robert Ross
4. Thomas T. Odell
5. Harris H. Hatch

    Utopia Red Granite Company of Saint George

1. Isaac W. Bradbury
2. John McIntosh
3. William H. Gray
4. Charles F. Clinch
5. James A. Moran
6. James O'Neill
7. James E. Lynott

    New Brunswick Red Granite Company

1. Peter Cormack
2. Frederick T. C. Burpee
3. Joseph W. Lawrence
4. John P. C. Burpee
5. Edwin Fisher
6. James Harris
7. David T. Schureman

    Lepreaux Red Granite and Freestone Company

1. William K. Reynolds
2. Harlan P. Reynolds
3. Alfred L. Starratt

Another Bay of Fundy Red Granite Company?

    In addition to the above acts of incorporation, the New Brunswick Assembly passed a strange act on April 6, 1888 (51 Vict., c. 64) entitled An Act relating to the Bay of Fundy Red Granite Company. It deals with a "Bay of Fundy Red Granite Company, a Company incorporated as aforesaid under the Laws of the State of New York, . . . in or before the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy two" and authorizes it to purchase land in New Brunswick. However, it is not clear if this is the same Bay of Fundy Red Granite Company that had been incorporated by New Brunswick in 1873. The act also referred to a lawsuit "now pending in the Supreme Court of this Province, wherein Elmir A. Young is Plaintiff, and Alexander Milne, William Coutts, James Watt, Charles Johnston, Jr., John D. Chipman, and Julius T. Whitlock are Defendants."
 

Compiled by Craig Walsh.

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