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Hartin Settlement is a small rural community in western York County, New Brunswick, Canada. Formerly a farming community, it is now home to approximately twenty families. It is located near Canterbury, New Brunswick. The settlement is named for Thomas Robinson Hartin Sr. Reverend, an Anglican clergyman from the county of Londonderry in Northern Ireland. He encouraged people to settle in this area in 1865. By 1866, Hartin Settlement was a farming community with approximately 26 families. Hartin Settlement got power in 1950. It had a schoolhouse for grades one to eight. Being a rural school, it closed in 1967 due to the Equal Opportunity Program and was demolished in 1983/84. From the late 1800s to the early-mid 1900s, members of the Annis family who died were buried in a plot of land sectioned off of their property. Also buried there were members of the Oliver family and an unknown man. The cemetery wasn’t kept up well and the first attempt to restore it was in the 1940s. Another attempt was made around 1972. In 1979, people from the Hartin Settlement area began restoring the cemetery and found out who some of the people buried there were. In 2016, it was restored further and more people were found to be buried there.