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Another interesting Cocagne locality was the Ruisseau des Mal- 

 contentes, where, according to Gaudet (letter), there was a temporary 

 Acadian settlement after the expulsion. This is shown on old maps; 

 it is the stream some two miles south of Dixons Point. 



A memoir of Father Germain, in 1749 has this mention of Co- 

 cagne: — " Cocagne.. ..où havraient les bâtiments, goélettes envoyés 

 a l'Acadie du temps des detachments." 



The site of the first modem French settlement at Cocagne is 

 very plainly shown upon Des Barres map of 1781 (Map No. 28a, C). 



Map No. 28a. From Des Barres Charts of 1780-81, x ^. A, Neguac ; 

 B, Shediac ; C, Cocagne; D, Richibucto ; E, Buctouche. 



291. Buctouche. On the point between Black River and Buctouche River, 

 as I have been told by the late Rev. Father Michaud, who knew the 

 local history of Buctouche well, the ancestors of the modern settlers 

 on their arrival in 1785 found traces of older settlement. These were 

 remains of camps or houses supposed to have been made by earlier 

 settlers " taken and exiled by the English, " the houses being said, 

 traditionally, to have been burned. No doubt these were the homes 

 of the Acadians who are known to have been settled at Buctouche 

 in 1760. That this was indeed the site of the earliest settlement, as 

 tradition asserts, is confirmed by DesBarres chart of Richibucto- 



