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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...
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22. FIRST NUN IN NORTH AMERICA WAS BORN AT OUR DOORSTEP
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...
23. THE WRAYTON-MACDONNELL FAMILY ITS TRAGEDIES AND WEALTH
Yarmouth Vanguard, June 6, 1989 In the winter of 1831-2, arrived in Barrington the brig “Mary”, Capt. Duncan, from Dublin, master. While...
24. SHE WAS FORCED TO WATCH HIM HANG 40 OF HER MEN WITH A LASSO AROUND HER NECK
She was Françoise-Marie Jacquelin, originally from a place called Nogent-le-Rotrou, in France, the daughter of a doctor by the name of...
25. A CONFESSION BY PROXY ON THE HIGH SEAS
Yarmouth Vanguard, Tuesday, June 20, 1989. When I was young and curious, even before my teens, I heard in Pubnico a fantastic story, so...
26. HE PRAYED AND HIS LIFE WAS SPARED
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...
27. THE ACADIAN PARTICIPATION IN THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE OF THE U.S.
Yarmouth Vanguard, July 4, 1989 The Acadians who had been expelled to Massachusetts in 1755-56 started to come back to the Maritime...
28. THEY INTENDED TO MAKE OF NOVA SCOTIA THE 14TH STATE OF THE UNION
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...
29. “IT’S THE BEST GANG OF GREENIES I’VE EVER HAD”
Yarmouth Vanguard, Tuesday, July 18 1989. This is how Mr. Churchill, from Tusket, described the people who had helped him in 1891 to move...
30. THE BRIDGE SPANNING INDIAN SLUICE
Yarmouth Vanguard, Tuesday, July 25 1989. Indian Sluice is the channel between Sluice Point and Surette’s Island over which was installed...
31. THE FIRST EXPULSION OF THE ACADIANS OF SOUTHERN NOVA SCOTIA – 1756
Yarmouth Vanguard, August 1, 1989 Since the Acadians who lived in the Cape Sable region, which comprised before their Expulsion the...
32. THE SECOND EXPULSION OF THE ACADIANS OF SOUTHERN NOVA SCOTIA – 1758
Yarmouth Vanguard, August 8, 1989 Although the raid of 1758 in the Cape Sable region, which lead to the second Expulsion, brought into...
33. THE THIRD EXPULSION OF THE ACADIANS – 1759.
Yarmouth Vanguard, August 15, 1989 We saw in last week’s sketch that Father Desenclave had told Captain Gorham that there were 21 Acadian...
34. THE RETURN FROM EXILE IN 1766 OF SOME OF THE ACADIANS OF YARMOUTH COUNTY
August 23, 1766, the Boston News-Letter announced that Captain Amiro had left Boston Harbour for Québec. This “Captain Amiro” could have...
35. THE LOG CABINS OF WEST PUBNICO
Yarmouth Vanguard, Tuesday, August 29, 1989. The Acadians who came back to West Pubnico, after their exile of some ten years in...
36. TWO ACADIAN MARTYRS
Yarmouth Vanguard, Tuesday, September 5, 1989. The 200th anniversary of the French Revolution brings rejoicings for some people,...
37. FRENCH PEOPLE WHO SETTLED IN YARMOUTH COUNTY DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE NAPOLEON WARS
Yarmouth Vanguard, September 12, 1989 There have been at least 25 French People who settled in south-western Nova Scotia between the...
38. FRENCH PEOPLE WHO SETTLED IN DIGBY COUNTY DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND NAPOLEON WARS
Yarmouth Vanguard, September 19, 1989 Last week we saw that there were 13 Frenchmen who settled in Yarmouth County between the 1780’s and...
39. THE FIRST CANADIAN TO BECOME AN AMERICAN CITIZEN
Yarmouth Vanguard, Tuesday, September 26, 1989. This was Louis Benjamin Petitpas from Chezzetcook, born in the vicinity of Louisburg...
40. THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE OLD TIME ACADIANS
Yarmouth Vanguard, October 3, 1989 It has been said that Longfellow, in his poem EVANGELINE, has exaggerated somewhat the simplicity of...
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