Ephrem Boudreau wrote Riviere Bourgeois from which this history is taken and translated.
List of schooners built at River Bourgeois:
1891
Partners, 25 tons, Simon Goyetche
On March 5, Premier Iain Rankin announced a $3 million compensation fund to resolve cases that involve parties with competing claims and help speed up efforts under the Land Titles Initiative, which was established in 2017 to...
By: Colleen MacDonald MacLeod
St. Mary’s Special school serves children between the ages of five and 25 years who come from diverse parts of Zambia.
The school caters to children...
This awareness program is in its sixth year and this year’s theme is, “Could ticks be there? Be tick aware!” The focus is on the growing geographical distribution of ticks in North America, building on last year’s...
Looking back over the decades and, indeed, centuries, it is amazing to observe the numerous family names that once were common in this area. Two of those names that no longer holds a place here are Begin...
A proposed multi-purpose outdoor recreation park in Arichat will be an excellent use of space that has gone unused for far too long.
During Richmond Municipal Council’s committee of the whole on Feb. 9...
Transportation and communication in the history of Richmond County is predominantly the story of how the various communities maintained connection to the rest of the world by sea. This applied particularly to Isle Madame which had no...
People of Isle Madame have not lost Dr. Steven DeRoche, contrary to the over-heated press release cited in last week’s Reporter.
He does rounds, rotations as the hospitalist, at the nearby Strait-Richmond Hospital which...
After many Strait area patients lost their doctors in recent years, comes news that more people will be without a primary care physician.
In a Facebook post on Feb. 3., Dr. Steven DeRoche confirmed...
It is easy to complain about the changes imposed on our lives and the realities made clear as the COVID-19 pandemic reaches its one-year point.
In March 2020, many often-overlooked facts were driven abruptly...