HCAH - Village Vincent Traditional 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: cammoed medium size (we gave this a high terrain because of the big thorn bushes which protect it...on the up side this should prevent it from being muggled!).
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 Vincent family are believed to have settled here in the early 1690s. The dykes, originally built by Acadians, continued to protect the fields from the high tides in these rivers.
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