... Joseph Guéguen, Jean Bourg, Paul Hébert, François Arsenault, Joseph Poirier, Pierre Arsenault, Joseph Arsenault, and their families had taken refuge at the Miramichi camp, then surrendered and were taken prisoner at Fort Cumberland. ...
From Sikniktuk to Kent
... Thomas Power replaced Leroux in 1779, and in the same year, the 16 families of Cocagne began construction of their first chapel, south of the river, on land later owned by Edward Howard, which in 1815 led to its move to land owned by an Acadian. ...
... When Hannington first visited his grant in 1785, he found the four Acadian families there, who refused to leave his estate, believing they were on free land. ...
... Hannington offered to help the four Acadian families obtain free grants, which he did two years later. ...
... A second church was built in the same sector in 1803, financed by the faithful who lived between Cocagne and Tidiche (Cap-Pelé). ...
... This mill supplied the shipbuilding industry in Shediac, and at its peak in 1871, it employed 75 people. To supply his mill, he joined the forestry industry and became one of the area’s largest landowners. ...
... After they succeeded in convincing their husbands, the three families moved there ...
... the following year, in 1833.32 However, since these three families had already received land in Cocagne and Bouctouche, the province did not grant them title to these new grants until the 1850s. ...
... The tide flows about 13 miles, whither the settlement, consisting of fifty-six families, principally French, extends. The land is a deep clayey loam, exceedingly fertile, and sustaining a mixed growth. ...
... Fewer than 10 years later, in 1803-1804, during his visit to the region, the Bishop of Quebec, Most Reverend Denaut, counted 31, for a total population of 170 inhabitants.46 In the begin44. ...