ACADIAN TOUR #02 Multi-Cache
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This is a series of twenty five (25) caches placed to highlight the Acadian Heritage in Colchester County. Visit the actual sites of ACADIAN Villages of Cobequid. Enjoy vistas little altered from the days when Acadian families dyked the marshes and harvested salt hay. Captain Abijah Willard with an Acadian guide, map maker Thomas Lewis & 100 New England troops traveled through this area. His 1755 diary is one of the best information sources for these communities.
2. CONOMIE. In a 1748 report Charles Morris refers to 4 families living here. Willard passed through this area in August 1755 and wrote “we found 2 french familys and Severall Houses Deserted and got their aboute 10 oClock att Night wher the French was very Kinde”. On the blue sign; X is the number of the kilometers east of the river. The final co-ordinates are N45° 22.232' + X.000 W063°56.698 - X.000
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Pnpur vf n fznyy Ovfba, rireterra
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