7 HCAH - Village Abraham Landry 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.
7 HCAH - Village Abraham Landry
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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 Please watch for muggles
and traffic!
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.
The family of Abraham Landry and Marie Guilbaut were living along
Gudgeon Brook in the early 1700s. The dykes at the mouth of the
brook, first built by Acadians, were maintained until 1968 when the
Windsor causeway was built.
Additional Hints
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