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History of Acadia / Nova Scotia 

Old Acadian Village in Sackville, NB

5/16/2015

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Bonjour,
I think everyone in all our efforts have missed some research opportunities.
There hasn’t been a lot of effort to trace back the old Acadian presence in Sackville / Pre de Richard
and Middle Sackville / Pre des Bourg.
A plaque has been set up at Tintamarre / Upper Sackville to their credit
But no information on the other two settlements.
From the records, we know there was a small settlement somewhere in what is now Sackville.
Franquet's Map - seems to indicate that there were 9 households near what is now Sackville (attached)
The 1751 inhabitants (including refugees who had left Beaubassin or other  former settlements) included nine families in Sackville:
Jean-Baptiste CORMIER, his wife, 3 boys, 4 girls.
Antoine LANDRY, his wife, 3 boys, 2 girls. (Veskak)
Joseph RICHARD, his wife, 4 boys, 2 girls. (Nanpan)
Martin RICHARD, widower, 2 boys, 1 girl
Jean RICHARD, his wife, 1 boy, 1 girl
Pierre RICHARD, his wife, 2 boys, 2 girls
Pierre BOURGEOIS, his wife, 2 boys, 2 girls
Joseph RICHARD, his wife, 2 boys, 2 girls
Francois BERNARD, his wife, 1 boy
Francois BOURG, his wife, 7 boys, 3 girls
So there seems there were nine families with about 60 people. Question is...  where?
When I was very small - perhaps in the late 1950s - I remember my older sisters playing in some old ruins near the old Enterprise Foundry - - I have pointed at their location on the attached aerials and map.
Like most Acadian villages - the remains were on the higher sloped ground near a flat field and a tidal river. I have never heard if this stretch of the Tantramarre River was dyked with aboiteaux or not - but the aerials certainly suggest this.
While a full archeological dig probably isn't worthwhile, any foundations (although the stones were probably taken) or some evidence of structures might be found by a Geophysical scan.
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Tom Snowdon
5/16/2015 08:40:45 pm

Brian: Fascinating! It is sad that this has not been followed up. Have you spoken to anyone in the history dept. at Mt. A about this?

Thank you.

Tom

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brian
6/6/2015 04:34:20 am

No I haven't although I've worked a lot with the archivist - David Mawhinney.

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leona bourque
7/5/2015 02:43:05 am

brian...My line if from Antoine to Francis and then through four Michels finally to my father James N Bourque...My father was born in Sackville or Amherst...Can not remember where. He always used the name Burke...in fact his brothers have that name on their gravestones...He had to change his name when he became an American citizen in the 1920s...Amazing isnt it that I can trace that line from a place. My son also took me to Martzaize... (he is a journalist,) where the Bourg from Quebec placed a plaque in a church dedicated to the family....Additionally, a Michel is found on the census at Miquelon along with a record of the boat they went there on as well...So much for long time ago days...blessings..LLB

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