Arichat 1935: Main street, center of the village.
This house, originally built by Constant P. Terrio, was subsequently owned by Alphonse J. Benoit, Wilfred Samson and currently by Wilfred’s daughter Yvonne and her husband Gilles Boudreau.
The foundation of the house...
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.
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,...
As early as 1824, a functioning school existed in Arichat under the tutelage of John Walsh who instructed 30 to 40 aspiring scholars.
By 1834, the school faced insurmountable financial difficulties, and as a result, the creditors - primarily John...
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 earned bachelors’ degrees in arts and...
Pierre Hudon LeNoir was the son of Thomas Mélaine Lenoir and Victoire Ursule Thériault. Pierre was a lawyer in Halifax. He married Fannie Sophie Smith and they were prominent citizens in the social circles in Halifax. Fannie lived to...
Who is to blame for what befell
Acadians in “Le Grand Derangement” of 1755: the heartlessness and stubbornness
of Charles Lawrence; the pressure applied by the New England colonies to secure
the region; the failure of British authorities to adequately...
In the village of Poulamon, just west of D’Escousse, one of the early teachers was Louis Seniat who taught there from 1817 to 1825, and again in 1834.
He had made his way to...
Cecile Boudrot, daughter of Louis Boudrot and Barbe Fougere, was married at around 1780 to Simon Forest.
At her husband’s death she became a tavern keeper at Arichat. She was grandmother to MLA Honore Martell and Rev. Guillaume Marin LeBlanc...