January 7, 1902: Alfred Gerard, widower of Marie Forgeron, married Charlotte Lejeune, widow of Joseph Meunier, witnesses were Ephrem Gerard and Alexina Forgeron
January 21, 1902: Robert LeJeune, son of the late Abraham Lejeune and Marie Dugas, married Alvina Poirier,...
The first priest who lived at West Arichat was Father Jean Baptiste Allain, a French émigré who had to flee from St. Pierre and Miquelon to the Magdalene Islands in 1792.
Afflicted with asthma,...
How did it come to be that StFX University got its start in Arichat?
In 1760 Britain conquered New France and one of the consequences of this development was to precipitate the exodus of...
In 1897 Bertram Bourinot began the Richmond County Record, a periodical that lasted for almost eighty years. Marshall Bourinot worked with his father and continued the paper into the 1970’s. The following are excerpts from the Richmond County Record...
Arichat, 1935: We are now on the lower road, on the
water side, moving east at the store of A.D. Samson.
A building located on the west side of the A.D. Samson
store must at some...
In the early 1970s, government policy made it possible for teams to apply for and use monies to build or upgrade baseball fields. New facilities sprang up in Rocky Bay, Arichat and Louisdale.
The 1971 season of the RABA saw...
In May of 1763, a French ship, La Dorothée, set sail from England
bound for the port of St. Malo, France.
Joseph Babin and his wife Marine (LeBlanc) were
Acadians originally from Grand Pré. Victims of...
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 Kelly.
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 is an excerpt from the Richmond County...
Known as Dr. A.A. in Arichat, Aime-Alexandre LeBlanc
was born (1861) and raised in Memramcook, New Brunswick. His father was André
LeBlanc, his mother Marie-Claire Bourque, both descended from old Acadian
families.
He studied at St. Joseph’s...