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41. THE 25th ANNIVERSARY OF THE CANADIAN FLAG

Yarmouth Vanguard, Tuesday, October 10, 1989. Next year, even in a few months, it will be the 25th anniversary of the Canadian Flag. The...

42. THE OLD SHELBURNE ROAD

Yarmouth Vanguard, Tuesday, October 17, 1989. Some two hundred years ago, there was a road going through the woods from Yarmouth to...

43. FORT SAINT LOUIS

Yarmouth Vanguard, Tuesday, October 24, 1989. At Villagedale, Shelburne County, just south of the swimming area of Sabim Beach, are...

44. 465th ANNIVERSARY OF THE NAME “ACADIE”

Yarmouth Vanguard, Tuesday, October 31, 1989. In 1524 took place the first European excursion on our Atlantic shores of which we have a...

45 – SENTENCED TO BE HANGED AS A PIRATE, HE DIED A GENTLEMAN, RESPECTED BY FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS

This short text was written in English by Father Clarence d'Entremont and published in the Yarmouth Vanguard on November 7, 1989....

46. THE RISE AND FALL OF LOUIS A. SURETTE

Yarmouth Vanguard, November 14, 1989 Louis Athanase Surette was born on Dec. 29, 1818, at Saint-Anne-du-Ruisseau, then known as Eel...

47. THE “FRENCH CROSS” AT MORDEN, N.S.

Yarmouth Vanguard, November 21, 1989 On the shore of the Bay of Fundy, in Kings county, not quite five miles from the Annapolis county...

48. SENTENCED TO BE WHIPPED WITH THE CAT-O-NINE-TAILS

Yarmouth Vanguard, Tuesday, November 28, 1989. Boys will be boys! This stands not only for our time, but for all ages. The story that I...

49. CAPT. PIERRE DOUCET (1750-1792)

Yarmouth Vanguard, December 5, 1989 At the time of the American Revolution, while the American privateers were scanning the coast of Nova...

50. AMABLE DOUCET. Esq. (1737-1806)

Yarmouth Vanguard, December 12, 1989 Last week I told you about Capt. Pierre Doucet, born in 1750, exiled in York, Maine, settled at...