Pisiguit

[1] By the mid-18th century, a memoire from 1748 noted that there were 2,700 people in Pisiguit compared to 2,400 in the Grand Pré and Canard area.

Attacks on English forces at Grand Pré led to the building of Fort Edward in 1750.

This led many Pisiguit Acadians, particularly along the Cobequid shore, to pack up and leave, heading mainly toward the Chignecto area and Ile Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island).

Population increases and difficulty crossing the heavily tidal Pisiquit River necessitated the creation of a second parish.

The fort had been built to verify the Acadians in Pisiguit and to control the passageway for ships trying to sail to the Bay of Fundy.?

Many buildings remained standing though as they were distributed by lottery after 1760 to the New England Planters who settled on the Acadians former lands.

[6] The Acadian people never again received permission to resettle Pisiguit, but some of them settled other parts of the Maritimes to rebuild their lives.

In 1759, 50 New England Planter families were settled in Piziquid by Amos Fuller and John Hicks of Rhode Island and 50 more in 1760.

The government provided grants of land and supplies of tools, arms, ammunition, and one bushel of corn per person per month for a year.

This left (according to a count on August 9, 1752) 313 Acadians being held at Ft. Edward ... 21 men, 90 women, and 202 children.

These efforts generally failed and they removed themselves to the St. Mary's Bay area on the western shore of Nova Scotia.

"[7] In summer 1996, a work crew was excavating the ground to begin construction on Gabriel Road in the Mountain View Subdivision near Falmouth, Nova Scotia.

After finding bones in the soil, David Christianson of the Nova Scotia Museum was called to come out to the site.

The Sainte Famille church is thought to have been located on the site of lot #8, which is covered by a house.