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HISTORIC SITES IN NEW BRUNSWICK 



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Franquet in his report mentions two roads from Pont àîBuot to Beausé- 

 jour. One, the lower and poorer, led to Butte à Roger ; the'other, shown 

 on the maps, went up the hill through the woods, the two joining on the 

 lull opposite Butte à Roger. 



From Baie Verte village a road ran straight across the flats to Fort 

 Oaspereau. Alexander Monro thus speaks of it: "From Mill Creek the 

 road, nearly two miles in length, to the fort was in a straight line. About 

 a mile and a quarter of this distance from the creek is marsh, over which 

 the road was made on four rows of piles. The piles were driven into the 

 marsh, and were about eight feet apart, and six feet above ground. On the 

 top of each hne of posts, timbers were extended lengthwise,'and the whole 

 was covered with plank. Between the marsh and the fort' the road still 

 visible, passes over an upland flat. " In a diary of 1755, given;by Mr. Monro 

 we read : " We Passe over a Cassway one & a half mile In Length. Come 



Map No. 25. Causeway from Baie Verte to Fort Gaspereau (Monckton). 

 From an old Plan ; x f. 



to ye Fort Gauspearu." Traces of this causeway are still to be seen and are 

 known locally. Its exact course is shown on old plans in the Crown Land 

 Office. (Map No. 25.) 



In connection with the military operations of 1751-1755, and upon the 

 maps of the time, several places are prominently mentioned. The sites of 

 the principal of these are as follows : 



Pont à Buot. The maps show this bridge across the Misseguash about two miles 

 above Fort Beausejour, at Point à Buot. The place is pointed out by tradi- 

 tion, and is made certain by the extremely detailed maps of Franquet. 

 (]\Iaps No. 26, 27. ) The Eiviere a V Ours is a small stream crossing the high- 

 way road some 400 yards west of Point de Bute corner. There was here a 

 I ivnch post later to be mentioned. 



Butte à Roger. There is no doubt as to its location. It is shown clearly on the 

 French Plan of 1755 (1779) and elsewhere. Franquet says a guard was kept 

 there. It is the marked, somewhat isolated little hill east of the highway 

 road between Sackville and Amherst, just where it descends Fort Cumber- 

 land Ridge, (see Map No. 24). On its top seems to be a cellar, perhaps not 

 ancient. 



Some of the other Buttes are easy to identify. Butte à Janot was 

 that from which the Rivière à l'Ours descended, and Janot's house was 



