Lower Kintore is a Canadian settlement, founded by Scottish immigrants. A populated place in Perth Parish,

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, Lower Kintore is located at . In the

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, Lower Kintore has a

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Lower Kintore was founded in the 1870s by Scottish settlers who left

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in 1873, and had paid over to do so. In 1909, a

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was built. In the 1873–74

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, the Lower Kintore

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received from a

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for education, though for the 1901–02 academic year, the district had no classes because the

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house needed replacing.

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populated places in Victoria County, New Brunswick {{NewBrunswick-geo-stub