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Historic Sites. 



with a fine view both up and down river, at the place marked on the 

 accompanying map No. 21. Here occurs a combination of advantages 

 so great that in so far as such circumstantial evidence can fix a his- 

 toric site, they fix the site of Emenenic here. At this place a long 

 bar (more prominent than the map appears to show) runs off to the 

 westward towards the mainland; but it ends abruptly, forming on 

 both sides of it coves with deep water constituting an admirable 

 sheltered anchorage. Further there is here a superb sand beach, 

 springs issuing from the bank, and an admirable raised situation for 

 buildings (on which now stands a house, the only one on the island). 

 Further, the situation is one well-protected from the north winds 

 by the lofty hills of the shore, here close to the island, and it slopes 

 towards the southwest, a desirable situation for winter. The situation 

 commands also a view down the entire length of the Reach. It is 

 in all ways a charming, convenient and advantageous situation and far 

 in advance of any other situation on the islands for a winter settle- 

 ment, and I do not doubt it was the site of the village of Emenenic. 



271. Butternut Ridge and Canaan. Reputed French settlements occur here, 

 described thus by Dr. B. S. Thorne of Havelock: — "about one mile 

 and a half North-East of the old Portage at Butternut Ridge (see Map 

 No. 7), on the farm of Mr. Howard Hicks there has been a French 

 clearing and garden: they have plowed up various implerrients, 

 among them a cannon ball. At the end of the Portage at Canaan there 

 are four or five hundred acres of intervale where they had gardens 

 planted, with plum, gooseberry and currant bushes." 



271. It is locally believed that Longs Creek, Washademoac, was first settled 



by the French. I have been told by Mr. A. N. Vincent, a former resi- 

 dent who knows the region well, that the first settlers found there 

 at a place about half way up the present settlement, the remains 

 of an old French house, clearing and stable. 



272. French Village, Hammond River. The history of this Acadian settle- 



ment is given in the settlements Monograph. Through a kind cor- 

 respondent, (Mrs. Noble Beatty, of French Village) I have endeavoured 

 to find what traces of this settlement still remain. She tells me that 

 the site of their old burial ground is known, upon the Ford place 

 about two miles from Nauwigewauk Station, in the situation shown 

 on the accompanying map (Map No. 22). This burial ground, 

 according to a statement in Acadiensis, (VI, page 98 of Supplement) 

 is now on the Provincial Stock-farm. The sites of their houses are 

 known in a number of places along Hammond River, and particularly 

 at the places marked on the map. The name of the lake, Terreo 

 (viz. Therrieau) Lake, is of course another remnant of their presence. 

 An old plan in the Crown Land Office shows the lots occupied for 

 a time by them before they sold out to their new English neigh- 

 bours and moved away to Madawaska. (See under this name in 

 the Settlement-Origins). The village is shown, but in exaggerated 

 and conventional manner, on the R. Campbell map of 1788. 

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