In studying the history of a village, town or county, it is those individuals who had an impact on the life of their time who receive the recognition – and rightfully so.
Successful entrepreneurs...
In studying the history of a village, town or county, it is those individuals who had an impact on the life of their time who receive the recognition, and rightfully so.
Successful entrepreneurs like...
In the years following 1935, the road from the Arichat-Petit de Grat intersection has evolved into the main residential section of the old village. The highway running through it has become the primary thoroughfare through Arichat leading...
Ephrem Boudreau wrote Riviere Bourgeois from which this history is taken and translated.
Acadians were, for the most part, men of the sea because many of their ancestors came from French maritime ports, or...
Year two at the Arichat seminary/school saw an increase in registration.
The seminarians, some 15 or so, boarded at the old “Hubert Big House.” Forty students enrolled in the common school and academy. Though...
Having secured adequate funding for his fledgling school, Bishop MacKinnon realized that the success of this venture now rested on procuring a competent teaching staff.
He convened a group at Arichat called “the friends...
How did it come to be that StFX University got its start in Arichat?
In 1760 Britain conquered New France and one of the consequences of this development was to precipitate the exodus of...
In 1897 Bertram Bourinot began the Richmond County Record, a periodical that lasted for almost 80 years. Marshall Bourinot worked with his father and continued the paper into the 1970s.
The following excerpts are...
Diseases, which have all but been forgotten, were common and at times fatal 100 years ago: diphtheria, appendicitis, pneumonia, yellow jaundice, and tuberculosis were the main ones.
At one point, a county nurse traveled...
Around the time of the American War of Independence there were those who maintained their loyalty to Great Britain and did not support a violent revolution. These “Tories” also referred to as Loyalists found themselves in a...