Looking back over the decades and, indeed, centuries, it is amazing to observe the numerous family names that once were common in this area. One of those names that no longer holds a place here is Bellefontaine.
Ephrem Boudreau wrote Riviere Bourgeois from which this history is taken and translated. This is a continuation of the chapter called the “Silver Jubilee of Rev. Father Pierre Robitaille.”
At the Solemn High Mass, the jubilee was assisted by Fathers...
It’s hard to believe it, but it’s back-to-school time already.
As a dad of two daughters, Grade 4 and Grade 2, I’ve been busy these past few weeks getting them everything they need for school. This year, my daughters and...
Richmond County Canada, district number 41, Richmond, sub-district number 6. Taken By Daniel Sampson, April 6, 1891. Text transcribed and contributed by Jeanne D. Belford.
This transcription should be of particular interest to those with Bonin, Boucher, Boudrot, Burke, Cordeau,...
I’ve come to love and appreciate candles much more in
my adult life than I did in my childhood and adolescence.
Far from being the birthday-cake wish-granters or
church-service adornments of my younger years, I’ve found...
Some progress is being made to address the local housing shortage.
At their regular monthly meeting earlier this month, the Municipality of the County of Antigonish passed a motion to enter into a development...
Part 26:
Arichat:
1935; on the lower road moving eastward toward Petit de Grat we’ve arrived at
the home of Hector DeCoste. His house had originally been the property of Henry
Boudreau and his family of thirteen;...
The recent meeting between councils with the Town of Antigonish and Municipality of Antigonish County is a harbinger of things to come.
On January 10, the municipal councils met at the People’s Place Library in Antigonish.
Antigonish Mayor Laurie Boucher said...
Arichat is the oldest parish in the Diocese of Antigonish. This is the seventh installment recounting its history.
In 1872 Father John Cameron was serving his ninth year as rector of the diocesan cathedral...
About 370 million years ago, when Nova Scotia was in the act of
mountain building, our planet’s tumultuous crust permitted the escape of two
elements which, to this day, are found concentrated together in our province’s
bedrock.