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1. THE PUBNICOS: OLDEST REGION STILL ACADIAN
Yarmouth Vanguard, 3 Jan. 1989. While I was writing my “History of Cap Sable,” (5 vol. in French; Hubert Publications, Eunice, La., in...
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2. THE HILLS AT ARGYLE HEAD.
Yarmouth Vanguard, Tuesday, January 10, 1989 When, on route 103, one crosses East River, more commonly known as Argyle River, formerly...
3. HIS FATHER WAS HIS UNCLE
Yarmouth Vanguard, Tuesday, January 17, 1989 During the first half of the 19th century lived in Sainte-Anne-du-Ruisseau a mulatto to whom...
4. PORT LOMERON OR CHEBOGUE
There was once on the right bank of Chebogue River, at a place that used to be called “Indian Point”, then “Point Crocker”, and on...
5. HANGING OF TWO ACADIANS AND THREE INDIANS IN BOSTON
Yarmouth Vanguard, 31 Jan. 1989. Captain Joseph Decoy, from Cape Breton, used to trade in Boston with his vessel. This was in the 1720’s....
6. HUSH HUSH MONEY
Yarmouth Vanguard, February 7, 1989 In 1892, St. John’s, Newfoundland, sustained the greatest conflagration of its history, when, during...
7. VWIDOW OF 13, MILLIONAIRE AT 34
Yarmouth Vanguard, February 14, 1989. Her name was Anne Mius d’Entremont, born at the manor house of the Mius d’Entremont family, in the...
8. HE SAWED OFF A LEG OF ONE OF HIS MEN BUT THEY PICKLED HIS HEAD
Yarmouth Vanguard, February 21, 1989 John Phillips was an Englishman, a carpenter by trade. In the Summer of 1723, he hired himself as a...
9. WEDGEPORT A HUNDRED YEARS AGO AND BEYOND
Yarmouth Vanguard, February 28, 1989 Captain Hilaire V. Pothier of Wedgeport (1831-1924) was hired in October of 1884 for a whole year by...
10. BAPTISTE, THE RASCAL
Yarmouth Vanguard, March 7, 1989 This was Pierre Maisonnat, more commonly known, for no apparent reason, Pierre Baptiste, or Captain...
11. BAPTISTE WAS SAID TO HAVE A WIFE IN EVERY PORT
Yarmouth Vanguard, March 14, 1989 Pierre Maisonnat, called Baptiste, of Bergerac, the rascal I was telling you about last week, had only...
12. SHE PRESIDED OVER COUNCILS OF WAR AGAINST HER KINDRED
Yarmouth Vanguard, March 21, 1989 This was Marie-Magdeleine Maisonnat, born in 1694-95, the daughter of Pierre Maisonnat, called...
13. NAPOLEON BUCKSAW
Yarmouth Vanguard, March 28, 1989 Some of those who will read this sketch will remember Napoleon Bucksaw. His family name was D’Auteuil....
14. THE “CASKET” WOMAN
Yarmouth Vanguard, April 4, 1989 Pierre Surette was born in lower Eel Brook, June 30, 1869. The house in which he was born still stands,...
15. HE JUMPED BAIL
Yarmouth Vanguard, Tuesday, April 11, 1989. In 1620, when the Pilgrims arrived in Plymouth, Massachusetts, they asked the Indians to...
16. THEY CUT OFF THE FINGER THAT TIPPED THE SCALE AND SOME MORE
Yarmouth Vanguard, Tuesday, April 18, 1989. We saw last week how Major Richard Waldron had ordered the merchant Henry Lawton and others,...
17. THEY TIED THEMSELVES TO THE MAST AND STEERING WHEEL SO NOT TO BE WASHED OVERBOARD
Yarmouth Vanguard, Tuesday, April 25, 1989. In the second part of last century, especially in the 60’s and 70’s, the Pubnicos experienced...
18. WILSON ISLAND
Yarmouth Vanguard, Tuesday, May 2, 1989. The students of the sixth grade of the school in Wedgeport have asked for an article on Wilson...
19. WITCHCRAFT, SORCERERS AND SPELLS
Yarmouth Vanguard, May 9, 1989 Witchcraft, in one form or another, has been spoken of as far back as history has been recorded. Some...
20. WERE THE VIKINGS HERE?
Yarmouth Vanguard, Tuesday, May 16, 1989. The Vikings were pirates from the Scandinavian region, northwest of Europe, who, then, eleven...
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