26 HCAH – Shubenacadie River Traditional Cache
canuck thistles: shutting this one down. hopefully someone else will think of this area for caches.
26 HCAH – Shubenacadie River
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Hants County Acadian Heritage Series. A series of caches showing
“snapshots in time” of Acadian life in this county. All locations
are signed and documented as significant Acadian Historical Sites.
Container: small container
Our home borders on both Hants and Colchester counties, we were
quite surprised to discover how large the Acadian influence was in
this area. Most of these historical sites are newly developed,
please take the time to sit and enjoy their locations. Watch for
the blue signs with a yellow star at the top … these signs have
interesting information regarding each place.
Hants County was known to Acadians as “les Mines.” By the 1680s
Acadians had settled along the Avon River, an area which they would
call Pigiguit. By the middle of the 18th century Acadians had
settled all along the Hants shore and this area had become one of
the major settlements in the French colony of Acadie. Acadian
villages were located along tidal rivers adjacent to meadows and
marshes which could be dyked, drained and and farmed. The fertile
marshlands supported a prosperous agricultural economy.
This river was part of a Mi’kmaq and Acadian route from the Bay of
Fundy through 115 lakes and rivers to Halifax Harbour. The
Shubenacadie Canal, constructed in the mid 1800s, is a National
Historic Civil Engineering Site.
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(Decrypt)
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