[Raymond] THE FIRST GOVERNOR OF NEW BRUNSWICK 



Canada refused every invitation to side with the Americans, the Abbé continues: 

 "The *ôod sense of the Acadians stigmatized in one word this fratricidal war of 

 /ngishtersus English: it was called by them the Silly War (/a guerre Jolie) 

 nd even to this day they do not designate it by any other term How these 

 TsfZVectl^ere repaid for theirjoyalty at the close of this war is well known. 

 The pr vincI m which they lived;, since known as New Brunswick bec ame a 

 , lace of refuge for those persons in the United States who had adhered to the 

 British cause It is not without interest to observe, in passing, that among 

 ,h n mb r of the fugitives was the family of Winslow, whose part at Grand 

 Prl "veil known. He" experienced in his own family the punishment of banish- 

 ment which he had inflicted upon the innocent Acadians. - 



Farther on in his book the Abbé Casgrain says:— 



"After the arrival of the Loyalists there came a body of troops .that tod 

 received British pay and at the close of the war had been disbanded. Those 

 of he unhappy Acadians that had not already been ousted from the. land 

 I nediatelv became the prey of these strangers; they burned then fences, s ole 



heTr caÏÏe during the extreme cold of winter they broke open their cellars 

 so That IheiV store § of potatoes might freeze. They went so far as to carry off 

 U\r forre i he women in their houses. 



' One evening some Acadians who were returning from a visit at the house 

 of a nei hbour saw some Loyalists dragging along with them a young g£ who 

 they had blind-folded. The Acadians made a rush to free her from thex hands 

 and only succeeded in so doing after they had encountered several pistol shots. 



Lastly we have to consider the truth of the following statement :- 



"The Indians who still live at the mission of Sainte-Anne, and who have 

 always lived in peace beside the Acadians, were not more exempt than they 

 from these indignities, and in the end were robbed of their reserve. 



One day some Loyalists, strolling along the bank o the Rner St. John, 

 soied a canoe paddled by Indians coming up the river. 'I have a good mind 

 d one of them raising his musket, 'to put a ball into the head of that squaw, 

 ; fore his companions, who wished to stop him, had time to deflect his aim, 



ht wa fired and the Indian woman tumbled stark dead m the canoe. 

 No sooner was the news of this crime generally known in the Indian miss on 

 fha The whole tribe rose as one man; a deputation ^"J^^ 

 Loyalists and called upon them to deliver up to them the murderer. In case of 

 refusal thev threatened war to the death. 



ItU The Loyalists, being intimidated, gave him up and he ™*£«££™ 

 to their village, stripped of his garments, fastened to a post and burned all ye. 

 The settLientTn the River Saint John became a living ^» -J * £ 

 UUtaUe) for the little band of Acadians who held to their lands ^ Some o them 

 went away and rejoined their dispossessed brethren w ho ^J™^ ^ 

 Madawaska colony; others, among them Pierre Cormier and h s family traversed 

 the forest wilderness that separated them from the isthmus of Nova Scotia, and 

 sought refuge with their brethren atjviemramcook. 

 ""TrJ^erim^ Deuxième Edition, 1888, p. 122. 



2 Ibid. pp. 494-496. , Q6 



3 Un Pèlerinage au Pays D'Evangéline, Deuxième Edition, 888, p. 496. 

 ^Pèlerinage au Pays D'Evangéline, Deuxième Edition, 1888, pp. 496, 



