From Sikniktuk to Kent

From Sikniktuk to Kent

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... During his trip in 1860, Rameau de Saint-Père counted 355 Acadian families along the Bouctouche River, with about a hundred Anglophones.52 However, in the late 1880s, presumably coinciding with the end of the shipbuilding industry and the forestry industry ...

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... The first grants in what would become SainteMarie were made in 1824, on the south shore of the Bouctouche River, in the vicinity of Roy and Upper Bouctouche.56 A decade earlier, English families— Coates, Bowser, Seaman, and Fisher—had settled in Coates ...

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... In 1871, Le Moniteur acadien wrote that “this colony is only five years old, and already more than ninety families are established there, and twelve hundred acres of land have been cleared using ploughs. ...

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... The territorial system created by the adoption of the Compulsory Land Purchase Act remained in place until 1875, but several Acadian families had already emigrated to New Brunswick, to Saint-Paul, Adamsville and Rogersville. ...

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... As of this moment, the pace of settlement increased and 10 years later, in 1877, there were 146 families, with a total of 701 people, and over 300 acres cleared. ...

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... While for the latter, it is possible to trace the instances of first settlement by pioneer families and the subsequent growth with relative precision, in the case of Elsipogtog, it is first and foremost a question of the forced contraction of a territory ...

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... have for some years been employed as laborers by the merchants and others engaged in trade and lumbering, and particularly John Jardine, Esquire, at whose deal wharves and ship yard [sic] they have hitherto had almost constant employment.”81 In the 1871 ...

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... This fish exporting company was in operation until 1807. ...

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... In 1803, the Bishop of Quebec, Most Reverend Denaut, visited the region and decided to split the parish in two. ...

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... TABLE 10 Ethnic Origins of Residents of Richibucto Parish as Percentage of Total Population 1861 Ethnic origin 1871 1881 Data from census Adjusted data Data from census Data from census 6.4 12.5 16.4 14.5 Irish 14.1 18.6 15.8 16.4 Scottish ...