From Sikniktuk to Kent

From Sikniktuk to Kent

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... Brothers Charlitte (Hélène Breau) and François LeBlanc (Marie Breau) and brothers Isidore (Rosalie LeBlanc) and Joseph Bastarache (Marie Girouard) of Memramcook travelled to Bouctouche to explore and select land in the summer of 1785. ...

Page 85

... That is how Maria-de-Kent, Saint-Joseph-de-Kent, Sainte-Marie-de-Kent, SaintPaul and Saint-Grégoire were founded. ...

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... Sainte-Marie Sainte-Marie (Notre-Dame du Mont-Carmel, St. Mary’s): Originally, Sainte-Marie was known as Notre-Dame or Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel, which is also the name of the religious parish and the first church built in 1866. ...

Page 89

... Quoted in Anna Girouard, La force herculéenne du maître-chantier Louis-Joseph Ouellet, prêtre, Sainte-Marie-de-Kent (Nouveau-Brunswick) (Sainte-Marie-de-Kent: Les Balises, 1995), 31. Trans. André Muise (2021). ...

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... Marie Hélène Allain Marie Hélène Allain was born in Sainte-Marie in 1939. She entered the convent at age 16 and received her teaching certificate from the Fredericton Normal School in 1959. ...

Page 91

... KENT’S COMMUNITIES 91 Robert Maillet Robert Maillet is an actor and wrestler who grew up in Sainte-Marie. He joined World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) in 1997 under the name of “Kurrgan” and is also known as The Acadian Giant. ...

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... In 1870, Sainte-Marie obtained its own religious parish and served Saint-Paul. ...

Page 98

... (For a detailed presentation of this struggle, see Miles Howe, Debriefing Elsipogtog: Anatomy of a Struggle [Black Point: Fernwood Publishing, 2015] and Marie-Hélène Eddie, “Publics, espace public et problème public: une étude de cas de l’enjeu du gaz ...

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... One branch of the family migrated to the United States, while another settled in Sainte-Marie. They are the origin of a branch of the Michaud (Mesheau) family in Kent County. Another branch came from the Madawaska area. ...

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... Born in Memramcook in August 1794, the last child of Simon LeBlanc and Marie-Madeleine Comeau, an exiled Acadian married couple, he arrived in Saint-Louis-de-Kent with his family in 1799. ...