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...
Ephrem Boudreau was born in River Bourgeois in 1905.
After his classical studies from 1922 to 1928 at the seminary at Trois Riviere, he spent three years at agricultural school at Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere. Here he...
Edward Charles Doyle was born in Poulamon on October 12, 1882, the son of Edward and Mathilda Doyle. He was educated at St. Francis Xavier University and the Maritime Business College. He was thrice married, first to Florence Alice...
The first missionary to visit Arichat was Father Bailly de Messein, a native of France serving in the diocese of Quebec.
Bailly was replaced by Father Bourg who directed the parishioners to build a...
February 5, 1918: Francois Muise, son of Patrick Muise and Martha Jeanne Boudrot, married Alice Boudrot, daughter of Cleophas Boudrot and Alice Boudrot, witnesses were not recorded
February 5, 1918: Thomas James Kehoe, son of Thomas Kehoe and Annie McGrath,...
Ephrem Boudreau wrote Riviere Bourgeois from which this history is taken and translated:
The Silver Jubilee of Rev. Father Pierre Robitaille
At the Solemn High Mass the jubilee was assisted by Fathers Leo Keats, priest at St. Peter’s and Alfred-Abraham Boudreau...
The book Acadian Lives consists of interviews with Cape Breton Acadians
and was collected and edited by Ronald Kaplan with Rosie Aucoin Grace. The book
was published in 2004.
“Wilfred M. Poirier was born in 1885...
Charles Martel taught at D’Escousse in 1848 and 1849.
A native of Arichat, the young Martel had studied commerce at the Arichat Academy. With Arichat being a commercial centre, it was common for young...
Ephrem Boudreau was born in River Bourgeois in 1905.
He wrote Riviere Bourgeois from which this history is taken and translated.
Continue “the Fishery” Lines
Fishing depended on...
As early as 1824 a functioning school existed in
Arichat.
By 1834, the school faced insurmountable financial
difficulties and as a result the creditors, primarily John Tyrrell, a prominent
Arichat merchant, foreclosed on the property, but, instead...