English: Dancers from the Mohawk Nation at Kahnawake (Caughnawaga) who performed during a lacrosse tournament in the presence of H.R.H. Prince Arthur, son of Queen Victoria, Montreal, October 9, 1869. Source: LAC. MIKAN 3240570. https://www.flickr.com/photos/28853433@N02/4666912176/ Creative Commons License CC BY 2.0 (Click any one of the images above to download the extract from the article.) References:
"The Acadians of Clare, Rev. Joseph Mathurin Bourg" by Placide Gaudet (Navigate newspaper clippings from left to right by using directional arrows or by clicking page numbers on the panel directly below the article.) Reference: Gaudet, P. (1897, December 11). "The Acadians of Clare: Rev. Joseph Mathurin Bourg was the first Roman Catholic Priest of Halifax Parish. He took charge of the Parish August 1, 1795, but had labored for more than ten years among his countrymen in the west of the province." The Evening Mail (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) · Sat, Dec 11, 1897 · Page 12. https://www.newspapers.com/image/775784793. Downloaded on Dec 22, 2023
Newspaper clippings have been re-printed on the Association des Acadiens-Metis Souriquois blog site with permission from Newspapers.com. "During the period 1870-1885, an old Indian burying ground was discovered on King Street, in the Curry’s Corner area of Windsor. A number of bodies wrapped in birch bark, the characteristic Mi’kmaq funeral fashion, were discovered while digging operations were in progress for the erection of a barn. They were reburied, and it is possible there may have been an Indian mission chapel in the vicinity. There is reference to this church in the anonymous newspaper series “Reminiscences of Windsor” that was published in the Hants Journal on November 8th, 1883: “There is a farm, on which the Indians have long buried, and still bury their dead. Near that burial ground a Roman Catholic Chapel once stood, although no known vestige of it now exists. In connection with it this story has come down traditionally. A letter addressed to a Frenchmen at Grand Pre, was entrusted with a Micmac squaw. She, taken ill on her journey, committed it to a soldier bound for Pesegitk who handed it to his commanding officer there. Opened by him, it conveyed information that an important paper would be found in a recess near the altar of the chapel. Thither, at midnight, the magistrates with lanterns and torches, repaired, and discovered the detailed plan of a projected rising of the French and Indians.” Reference: Stewart, W.B., Beanlands, S., Kelman, D. (2006, August). "Fundy Gypsum: Miller’s Creek Quarry Continuation Archaeological Assessment West Hants, Nova Scotia, Archaeological Assessment Report. Cultural Resource Management Group, Ltd. https://novascotia.ca/nse/ea/millers.creek.gypsum.mine/millers.creek.gypsum.mine_RegistrationSections_Appendices_H-I.pdf (Accessed 12/13/2023)
Read clippings from the article from left to right. Click on each to enlarge. Link to: The Pennsylvania Gazette (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). Sun, Nov 13, 1746 · Page 2. https://www.news papers.com/image/39548282 Downloaded on Dec 2, 2023
Clippings shared with the express written permission of Newspapers.com News and Reflections: "Before Thanksgiving, There Were the Feasts of ‘The Order of the Good Cheer’"11/27/2023
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)
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