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21. THE FIRST “CANADIAN” CHILD WITH “EUROPEAN” BLOOD OUTSIDE NEWFOUNDLAND WAS BORN AT OUR DOORSTEP

Yarmouth Vanguard, Tuesday, May 23, 1989. His name was André Lasnier, born around 1620, at Port LaTour, Shelburne County. I say “outside...

Yarmouth Vanguard, Tuesday, May 30, 1989. This was Antoinette de La Tour, daughter of Charles de La Tour and of an Indian woman, born at...

Yarmouth Vanguard, June 6, 1989 In the winter of 1831-2, arrived in Barrington the brig “Mary”, Capt. Duncan, from Dublin, master. While...

She was Françoise-Marie Jacquelin, originally from a place called Nogent-le-Rotrou, in France, the daughter of a doctor by the name of...

Yarmouth Vanguard, Tuesday, June 20, 1989. When I was young and curious, even before my teens, I heard in Pubnico a fantastic story, so...

Yarmouth Vanguard, June 27, 1989. We do not have his name, but only his initials “W.C.”, with which he signed a letter that he wrote from...

Yarmouth Vanguard, July 4, 1989 The Acadians who had been expelled to Massachusetts in 1755-56 started to come back to the Maritime...

Yarmouth Vanguard, July 11, 1989 I told you last week of the anticipation the War of Independence of the U.S. of the Acadians who were...

Yarmouth Vanguard, Tuesday, July 18 1989. This is how Mr. Churchill, from Tusket, described the people who had helped him in 1891 to move...

Yarmouth Vanguard, Tuesday, July 25 1989. Indian Sluice is the channel between Sluice Point and Surette’s Island over which was installed...

Yarmouth Vanguard, August 1, 1989 Since the Acadians who lived in the Cape Sable region, which comprised before their Expulsion the...

Yarmouth Vanguard, August 8, 1989 Although the raid of 1758 in the Cape Sable region, which lead to the second Expulsion, brought into...

Yarmouth Vanguard, August 15, 1989 We saw in last week’s sketch that Father Desenclave had told Captain Gorham that there were 21 Acadian...

August 23, 1766, the Boston News-Letter announced that Captain Amiro had left Boston Harbour for Québec. This “Captain Amiro” could have...

Yarmouth Vanguard, Tuesday, August 29, 1989. The Acadians who came back to West Pubnico, after their exile of some ten years in...

Yarmouth Vanguard, Tuesday, September 5, 1989. The 200th anniversary of the French Revolution brings rejoicings for some people,...

Yarmouth Vanguard, September 12, 1989 There have been at least 25 French People who settled in south-western Nova Scotia between the...

Yarmouth Vanguard, September 19, 1989 Last week we saw that there were 13 Frenchmen who settled in Yarmouth County between the 1780’s and...

Yarmouth Vanguard, Tuesday, September 26, 1989. This was Louis Benjamin Petitpas from Chezzetcook, born in the vicinity of Louisburg...

Yarmouth Vanguard, October 3, 1989 It has been said that Longfellow, in his poem EVANGELINE, has exaggerated somewhat the simplicity of...