Schools sprang up in Framboise (it was the last one-room school to close its doors in 2003), Rockdale, Grand Greve, North Framboise, Framboise Interval, Stirling, Lower Framboise, St. Esprit, West L’Ardoise, Cross Roads Brymer, Point Michaud, and...
Father Jean-Baptiste DeCoste, a White Father and native of Arichat, had been a missionary in Africa. He remained until June 25, 1980 when he was replaced by Father William Burke. Burke was born in...
The history of education, schools, teachers, etc. is, to a great extent, the story of the one-room school house. At one point in the past, there were at least 25 schools in the county;...
The 12th resident pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish in West Arichat was a priest who later became known throughout all of Canada. He was Dr. Neil McNeil born at Hillsboro, in the Mabou parish....
Grandique is a French term meaning big ditch or big plank. According to a 1969 article in the Antigonish Casket by Bishop John Cameron, in the early 1800s, Grandique Ferry was a mission of...
Ephrem Boudreau was born in River Bourgeois in 1905. He wrote Riviere Bourgeois from which this history is taken and translated. Row boats During the early period of colonization and during...
The ninth resident pastor of Immaculate Conception Parish, West Arichat, was Father Alexander Beaton, a Cape Breton priest of Scottish descent who spoke the three principal languages then used in the Diocese of Antigonish. There seems to...
The fourth resident pastor was another priest from the Province of Quebec, Father Joseph Etienne Ethier. He was ordained in Montreal on Aug. 4, 1867 and was a fellow professor with Father Fournier on the staff of...
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...
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...




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