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Historic Sites. 



Iain's Office at St. John are two plans which show its site, and both 

 are reproduced, reduced, in Figure 23. Plan A is from George Sproule's 

 plan of 1785 of Carleton, and shows the site of the " French Old 

 Burying ground, " before the locality was disturbed by modern changes 

 The position and form of the burying ground, which probably stood 

 upon a knoll, show that it was then being washed away by the sea, 

 a fate which has overtaken many low-lying places on our steadily 

 sinking coast; and it was no doubt much higher and larger in the 



Map No. 23. Explained in the Text. 



Acadian Period. The plan B is roughly sketched from another plan 

 in the same office. The form given here to the Burying ground shows 

 that it really swung towards Middle Street and under Union Street 

 as well. Comparing this with C which is from the Admiralty Map of 

 1844, and this in turn with the modern map D, and taking account of 

 the remains found on King Street above Middle as mentioned above, 

 it would seem plain that the Old French Burial-ground occurred 

 about where King, Union and Middle Streets meet, and extended 



