Read the following excerpt from The Pennsylvania Gazette. (1746, November 6). Sunday Edition. Page 3.  (Click the image below to view the entire page).

Reference: The following newspaper clipping has been re-printed on the Association des Acadiens-Metis Souriquois blog site with permission from Newspapers.com: https://www.newspapers.com/image/39548275/

The following is an intriguing slice of Clare's history, and the Acadian settlements there, along with stories about some of the "key players" of the time, as documented by historian Placide Gaudet in his article "Unknown Yet Prominent, Some of the Acadian Pioneers of Historical and Picturesque Clare, Digby County," which he wrote in 1897 (Click on the thumbnails below to view the article in its entirety):

The following newspaper clippings have been re-printed on the Association des Acadiens-Metis Souriquois blog site with permission from Newspapers.com:
Link to: https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/774461336/

From Page 1 of the Halifax Herald, November 10, 1897 Edition (click on each image to enlarge and read left-to-right):

From Page 5 of the Halifax Herald, November 10, 1897 Edition (click on each image to enlarge and read left-to-right):

From the article: "Past President of the Acadian Memorial, Marty Guidry, related some sad news about our late, Acadian cousin Paul Lewis LeBlanc whose last home was in Ascension Parish, Louisiana:

"Unfortunately, today I learned that Paul LeBlanc passed away on August 24, 2022.  He had been in a full-care nursing home for over a year and died from complications of several health issues that he had during the past year."

Paul Lewis LeBlanc, as many may recall, was keenly interested in the use of DNA to verify genealogical lines and, ever since I've known him (which was from about 2006 on), Paul was always happy to share his knowledge and research."

Read the rest of the tribute to the life of Paul Lewis Leblanc (1946 - 2022) by clicking here: https://dna-genealogy-history.com/travel-by-ancestry/noted-acadian-genealogist-and-historian-paul-lewis-leblanc-of-baton-rouge-louisiana-passed-away-on-august-24-2022

Link to: Covart, L. (2019, April 2). "Episode 232: Christopher Hodson, the Acadian Diaspora. Ben Franklin's World" (Books, Colonial America, Podcast). https://benfranklinsworld.com/episode-232-christopher-hodson-the-acadian-diaspora/

The Acadians learned from the Mi'kmaq to use a nigogue. It is used to spear eels in the winter through the ice when the eels are buried in the mud. The photograph of a modern version of a nigogue was contributed by Association des Acadiens-Metis Souriquois First Vice President, Joseph Jacquard.

Past President Paul Tufts offers the following linguistic origins for the word nigogue.
Mi'kmaw word: "nikoq;" Acadian word: "nigogue;" French meaning: "lance anguille;" English word: eel spear.

In Geddes, J. Jr. (1908). Study of an Acadian-French Dialect Spoken on the North Shore of Baie de Chaleurs. M. Niemeyer, we find the following definition of nigog:

Referencing an article by A.F. Chamberlain that appeared in a 1902 edition of The Journal of American Folklore, "Algonkian Words in American English: A Study in the Contact of the White Man and the Indian," we find the Canadian French of the Maritime Provinces given as the origins of nigogue: