<![CDATA[ACADIENS-METIS-SOURIQUOIS.CA - Blog]]>Sat, 04 Jan 2025 21:36:26 -0800Weebly<![CDATA[News and Reflections: Acadian sites, The Canadian Magazine, Vol. 30, no. 3 (Jan. 1908) -- January 5, 2025]]>Sat, 04 Jan 2025 20:52:10 GMThttps://acadiens-metis-souriquois.ca/aams-blog/news-and-reflections-acadian-sites-the-canadian-magazine-vol-30-no-3-jan-1908-january-5-2025Scenes from the 1908 article "Fight between La Tour and D'Aulnay" written by Mary Caroline Crawford, with pencil sketches by Louis A. Holman, for The Canadian Magazine.
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Picture
Reference: Crawford, M.C. (1908, January). "Fight between La Tour and D'Aulnay: How the Lords of the Land struggled for supremacy in the region about Annapolis." The Canadian Magazine. Volume 30. Number 3.
]]><![CDATA[News and Reflections:  Correcting "a mistake about the unhealthfulness of Cape Breton." (Maryland Gazette: 1747) -- December 18, 2024]]>Wed, 18 Dec 2024 21:49:04 GMThttps://acadiens-metis-souriquois.ca/aams-blog/news-and-reflections-correcting-a-mistake-about-the-unhealthfulness-of-cape-breton-maryland-gazette-1747-december-18-2024
Picture
Fortresse de Louisbourg: Public Domain
Picture
Picture
Picture
Note from the editor: "Jakes" is a slang term for an outhouse or outdoor privy.
Reference: Maryland Gazette (Annapolis, Maryland) · Sat, Dec 16, 1747 · Page 1.
Re-published by Association des Acadiens-Metis Souriquois on the https://www.acadiens-metis-souriquois.ca/ website with the express, written permission of Ancestry.com. Source: Newspapers.com by Ancestry
]]><![CDATA[News and Reflections: “What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history?” -- December 11, 2024]]>Thu, 12 Dec 2024 02:16:45 GMThttps://acadiens-metis-souriquois.ca/aams-blog/news-and-reflections-what-then-is-generally-speaking-the-truth-of-history-december-11-2024“It must be admitted…it is most difficult to obtain absolute
certainties for the purposes of history.."
Picture
]]><![CDATA[News and Reflections: Acadian Hardships in 1745 -- December 5, 2024]]>Thu, 05 Dec 2024 16:03:53 GMThttps://acadiens-metis-souriquois.ca/aams-blog/news-and-reflections-acadian-hardships-in-1745-december-5-2024
Picture
Picture
Picture
Source: Selections from the Public Documents of the Province of Nova Scotia 1869, C. Annand in English  https://archive.org/details/selectionsfromp00akingoog/page/n10/mode/2up
]]><![CDATA[Reprise: News and Reflections: "Before Thanksgiving, There Were the Feasts of ‘The Order of the Good Cheer’" -- November 29, 2024]]>Sat, 30 Nov 2024 01:39:50 GMThttps://acadiens-metis-souriquois.ca/aams-blog/reprise-news-and-reflections-before-thanksgiving-there-were-the-feasts-of-the-order-of-the-good-cheer-november-29-2024
Picture
Painting of an Order of Good Cheer Banquet (Public Domain)
Link to: Kiniry, L. (2023, November 21). "Before Thanksgiving, There Were the Feasts of ‘The Order of the Good Cheer’: North America’s first culinary social club was born in the 17th-century Canadian frontier."Atlas Obscura.  https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/order-of-good-cheer-feasts (Retrieved 11/27/2023)
]]>