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The folldwiiit; aocuniit (tf tlu' Kn-iicli <cttlciiii'iits in this region is taken 

 from a well writt«'n and appan-iitly reliable anonvinous article in the St. 

 John Sun, Ajml ôth, 18i»3. " Fur a lung time after the departure of the 

 Acadians and even at the pi-esent time, are n»any evidences and remains of 

 French habitation, (^ne settlement existed near what is now the village of 

 Albert, another on what is called the 'point' at Hopewell, while the cen- 

 tral village wa.« at what is known as Church brook, just to the eastward of 

 Hopewell Hill. Here wiu« the old French Chapel, located on the eastern 

 bank of the brook. . . . The logs of the old chapel remained long after 

 the arrival of the English settlers, and the dwelling of one of the residents 

 of this village, erected a few years ago, rests on the corner-stone of the once 

 sacred edifice. Here also wius the burial-ground, and in summertime are 

 still to be seen the moss-covered mounds, now trampled and forsaken, and 



the broken headstones that mark the resting place of the Acadian dead 



There are also many remains of old French cellars, mills, etc. These mills 

 were principally on the marsh creeks. The stones from the mills have been 

 found in many instances, and are still in existence. The French dykes all 

 remain. They were not as far out as those of the present day, but still 

 enclosed a large area of marsh. Xo aboideaux were used, the creeks being 

 dyked along the sides up to the upland." 



Of importance in connection with the early settlements are the roads, of 

 which the principal one was that from Fort Beauséjour to Fort Gaspereau. 

 This is marked on many maps of the time, and especially on the plan made 

 by Captain Lewis in 1755, which states that the road was from a survey. 

 The part from Pont à Buot to Portage Hill nuist have been made before 

 Franquet's visit in 1752, for he marks it on his map, though he went by 

 water between these places. Tradition still points out the site of portions of 

 the road, and it is said that the late Alexander ]\Ionro, the surveyor, had in 

 early life traced out the entire road from one fort to the other. He states in 

 his " Isthmus of Chignecto" that the road ran via Jolicureand Portage Hill. 

 From the maps, and from traditions gathered on the spot, the course of this 

 road is drawn upon the accompanying map No. 24. From near Beauséjour 

 to near Portage Hill it followed about the top of the ridge between the two 

 highway roads of the present day. In the gathering of data for this map, as 

 in many other matters connected with this region, I have had the vi-ry great 

 advantage of the assistance of ]\Ir. W. C. ]\Iilner, whose knowledge of the 

 history of this region is thorough anil accurate, and also of Mr. Howard 

 Trueman, of Point de Bute, who knows so well its later history. This 

 main road was more than a mere track through the woods, for it was 

 pa.ssable for horses and to some extent for waggons. An important branch 

 (}( this road, older than the road itself, ran to Pont à Buot, whose 

 location will be considered presently, and thence to Fort Lawrence. Some 

 maps show also a roail along the western margin of the Fort Cumberland 

 Kidge, though faintly, and it was ])robably an unimportant trail to tin- houses 

 in that vicinity. Some maps mark a mad across the marshes from Beauséjour 

 to near the present Sackville, probably nut far frum the present highway, 

 and this road continues on to the Memramcook, evidently by way of the 

 present road along Frosty Hollow brook. It then continues from the Mem- 

 ramcook to the bend of the Petitcodiac, but the maps are too imperfect to 

 allow us to identify its course. Probably this was but a track through the 

 woods and not a road properly cleared. 



