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Tlu' c'dui-si' lit' (lie Missc^iuisli liius cluiiigi'd siniicwliut since KriiiKiuet's map 

 wiis iiuuU-, luul the river is now nuich fartlier ont from the shore. The 

 Jiiviere a F Ours (the small stream west of the present Point de Bute Corner, 

 (Map No. 24) run shere in a gully a few feet deep, as the hachure lines of 

 the Franquet map imply. 



There is said locally to have been a block-house about half a mile north 

 of Fort Beausejour, on the present " Boomer Place," about 100 yards from 

 the road on the highest point of the ridge. It is supposed to have com- 

 manded the road leading from the present Sackville. 



Franquet's Report mentions also French posts at Weska [Westcock], 

 and Chipoudy [Shepody]. As to the former, I have no idea of the site of 



the post. As to that at Shepody it 

 is possible it stood on St. Mary's 

 point, for the Mante map and 

 French plan both belonging in 

 1755, put a fort or post on this point 

 and call it fort de Shepody. There 

 is no trace of it to be seen, or known 

 locally. 



Between the Memramcook and 

 the Petitcodiac is a point known 

 locally as Fort Folly Point [Folly 

 Point on the maps] . I am told by 

 residents that there was a fort on 

 the point on whose site the present 

 light-house was built.' and that it 

 was said to have been built by the 

 Acadians during their troubles with 

 the English. Locally it is said it 

 was called Folly because there was 

 really nothing there to defend. It 



is possible that both here and on 

 Map No. 30. Present condition of Fort g^ ^^^^y^ p^j^^^ ^j^^^^ ^.^^.^ ^^^^^^ 



Gaspereau (Monckton) ^^^^ observation of the approaching 



From a plan by the author m 1897. ,^ ,• , , ^i • • % i 



_, ,. 4 1 tu ■ jv>,^„ ^^^ Lnghsh and the giving of alarms to 



Cross-lines are ramjmrts, Icngthicise lines are » , . ^, 



t/ie ditch. ^^'^ ^''ttlers up the rivei-s. Thus 



the " ^Mémoires sur le Canada," [p. 

 44] mentions with reference to the approach of IMonckton's fleet towards 

 Beausejour in 1755; " Vergor I'ignoroit ; des habitans de Chipoudy et de 

 Pékekoudiac, ayant aperçu cette flotte, le lui firent savoir en toute diligence." 

 Probably they passed by land over the Memramcook portage to Westcock 

 and thence across the marshes to Beausejour. 



4. The Richibucio District. 



In this part of the Province, from Cape Tormontine to Capo Escunai- 

 nac, the Acadian settlements became more numerous than elsewhere in 

 Nev7 Brunswick. Historical!}' tliey may be divided into two groups, 

 those formed before the expulsion, and those formed since. 



' A resident tells mc that he helped in the building of the lighthouse, and in making its founda- 

 tion a wall of stone 23 feet in length, the so-called fort, had to bo torn down. 



