Pictured is the schooner “Marie,” under the direction of Andre and Philemene Boudrot.

Ephrem Boudreau wrote Riviere Bourgeois from which this history is taken and translated. Acadians were, for the most part, men of the sea because many of their ancestors came from French maritime ports, or they became fishermen out of necessity because they had to adapt to their new environment in Acadia. The Acadian settlers whose…

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Don Boudrot

Don Boudrot is a retired English teacher, currently an author and historian living on Isle Madame.