2 HCAH – Village Babin Traditional Cache
canuck thistles: as stated earlier, the time has come to move on. this frees up this area for another cacher to place a cache.
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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: micro … bring a writing stick.
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 farmed. The fertile
marshlands supported a prosperous agricultural economy.
Members of the Babin family lived in this area in the late 1680’s.
The Avon River was called Pigiguit by the Acadians. Originally
included in Assumption Parish, this side of the river became the
Sainte Famille Parish in 1722.
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