 Source: Anon. 1737. "Carte de la coste du N[ord] et du S[ud] de l'Arcadie et de l'île St Jean" Public Domain. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b53089931w/ "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)
 "Taken on the Spot by Capt. J. Hamilton of His Majesty's 40th Reg't of foot." Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. Artist: John Hamilton. Ca 1753-1755. Public Domain. Wikimedia Commons. 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)
"... the only man of all European hordes that treated the Indian like a brother;" ... Mary Hartwell Catherwood.  Mary Hartwell Catherwood, Writer. Image: Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Read clippings from the article from left to right. Click on each to enlarge.             Link to: "Excerpts from "In the Dikelands. The Ebb and Flow of the Tides in Nova Scotia: Notes by Mrs. Catherwood. An American Among the Descendants of the Loyalists. What She Saw in New Brunswick. The Sad Story of the Acadians in Grand Pre Meadows." Chicago Tribune (Chicago, Illinois) · Sun, Sep 29, 1889 · Page 25. https://www.newspapers.com/image/371134813. Downloaded on Nov 22, 2023
Clippings shared with the express written permission of Newspapers.com  "Mixed blood Fur trader 1870." Unknown Author. Public Domain Link to: Vaughan, M. (2023, May 19). "Metis in Minnesota: In the Minnesota region during the eighteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries, métis, or mixed-ancestry, people often acted as bridges between white and Native American communities." MNOPEDIA. https://www.mnopedia.org/group/m-tis-minnesota
|
Archives
January 2025
Category
All
|
RSS Feed
Association-des-Acadiens-Metis-Souriquois.ca official website index
