Alexandre Edouard Decoste died January 7, buried January 9, 1951 at age 86 years
Melvina Giroir buried February 27, 1951 at age 92 years
Clifford Deslauriers died April 3, buried April 5, 1951
Jeannie Davis died April 22, buried April 24, 1951...
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 1970’s.
The following are excerpts from the Richmond County Record of...
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...
The following is a list of Protestants in Isle Madame from January, 1852 transcribed by Stirling Edwards in September, 2004 from the records of St. John’s Anglican Church in Arichat.
This list is among the papers of the Rev. James...
Editor’s note: Due to a production error, the “Repeating history” column that was scheduled to appear in the February 15 edition was not published. Below is the version of the column which was supposed to appear in last week’s...
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 and includes an interview with Walter Dugas of West Arichat:
“I...
It is interesting to note early place names in Isle
Madame and their evolution over time.
For example, with the founding of Ile Royal (Cape
Breton) in 1713, most community names were given a religious connotation,...
Family 3: 1804
Generation 1: Francis Grimes married Margaret March, she died June 24, 1863 age 88.
Generation 2: Michael Grimes married Henriette Landry, daughter of Peter Landry and Marie Marchand
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...
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...