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.
4. Village le Cadet This village was settled around 1720 by Charles & Marie (Bourque) Robichaud and grew to about ten homes. On August 10, 1755, Willard reported they marched “to an old french mans house and their loged wher we was Kindly Entrtaind with milk and Buter”. By following the Wharf Road you can see pastureland farmed by Acadians and the remains of their dykes.
Follow the Wharf Road 436meters (as the crow flies) and find a bison .
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