The bulk of commercial business at McPherson House was
provided by the mail couriers.
One of the most interesting and certainly the most
colourful was one Matthew Maddock of Arichat, the original courier between
Arichat and Plaister...
In Grand Anse, at the intersection of Route 4 and the
road to Dundee, once stood a majestic old home known as McPherson House. In the
days of stage coach and rail transportation, McPherson House stood as a welcome
stopover...
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 of...
Twenty-seven years ago, violence erupted in Cap Auguet,
near Arichat, and a tactical police squad was deployed to quell the
disturbance.
For many people in and around the area, this would seem
like an outlandish statement. Cap...
The following is a transcription
of all legible gravestones which remain in the old burying ground at St.
Hyacinth’s Church. This cemetery is located directly behind the former Glebe
House, overlooking Lennox Passage.
The majority of the...
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 taken from...
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
Haskell....
It’s Arichat in 1935 and we’re at the store of John
LeBrun Sr.
The LeBrun family has a proud mercantile history in the
community. John LeBrun came to Arichat from Brittany in France in the latter
half...
Scotia Rainbow, aquaculture, fish farm, politics -
equals controversy and conflict. Such was the case with the short-lived Scotia
Rainbow aquaculture project in Arichat.
In the beginning, all was well; there was a shiny new
processing plant,...
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...