100 ARTICLES

The following links are to 100 articles written by Father Clarence-J. d’Entremont, which were published in The Vanguard in 1989 and 1990. All attempts have been made to transcribe the articles as they were originally published.

1. THE PUBNICOS: OLDEST REGION STILL ACADIAN

2. THE HILLS AT ARGYLE HEAD.

3. HIS FATHER WAS HIS UNCLE

4. PORT LOMERON OR CHEBOGUE

5. HANGING OF TWO ACADIANS AND THREE INDIANS IN BOSTON

6. HUSH HUSH MONEY

7. VWIDOW OF 13, MILLIONAIRE AT 34

8. HE SAWED OFF A LEG OF ONE OF HIS MEN BUT THEY PICKLED HIS HEAD

9. WEDGEPORT A HUNDRED YEARS AGO AND BEYOND

10. BAPTISTE, THE RASCAL

11. BAPTISTE WAS SAID TO HAVE A WIFE IN EVERY PORT

12. SHE PRESIDED OVER COUNCILS OF WAR AGAINST HER KINDRED

13. NAPOLEON BUCKSAW

14. THE “CASKET” WOMAN

15. HE JUMPED BAIL

16. THEY CUT OFF THE FINGER THAT TIPPED THE SCALE AND SOME MORE

17. THEY TIED THEMSELVES TO THE MAST AND STEERING WHEEL SO NOT TO BE WASHED OVERBOARD

18. WILSON ISLAND

19. WITCHCRAFT, SORCERERS AND SPELLS

20. WERE THE VIKINGS HERE?

21. THE FIRST “CANADIAN” CHILD WITH “EUROPEAN” BLOOD OUTSIDE NEWFOUNDLAND WAS BORN AT OUR DOORSTEP

22. FIRST NUN IN NORTH AMERICA WAS BORN AT OUR DOORSTEP

23. THE WRAYTON-MACDONNELL FAMILY ITS TRAGEDIES AND WEALTH

24. SHE WAS FORCED TO WATCH HIM HANG 40 OF HER MEN WITH A LASSO AROUND HER NECK

25. A CONFESSION BY PROXY ON THE HIGH SEAS

26. HE PRAYED AND HIS LIFE WAS SPARED

27. THE ACADIAN PARTICIPATION IN THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE OF THE U.S.

28. THEY INTENDED TO MAKE OF NOVA SCOTIA THE 14TH STATE OF THE UNION

29. “IT’S THE BEST GANG OF GREENIES I’VE EVER HAD”

30. THE BRIDGE SPANNING INDIAN SLUICE

31. THE FIRST EXPULSION OF THE ACADIANS OF SOUTHERN NOVA SCOTIA – 1756

32. THE SECOND EXPULSION OF THE ACADIANS OF SOUTHERN NOVA SCOTIA – 1758

33. THE THIRD EXPULSION OF THE ACADIANS – 1759.

34. THE RETURN FROM EXILE IN 1766 OF SOME OF THE ACADIANS OF YARMOUTH COUNTY

35. THE LOG CABINS OF WEST PUBNICO

36. TWO ACADIAN MARTYRS

37. FRENCH PEOPLE WHO SETTLED IN YARMOUTH COUNTY DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND THE NAPOLEON WARS

38. FRENCH PEOPLE WHO SETTLED IN DIGBY COUNTY DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND NAPOLEON WARS

39. THE FIRST CANADIAN TO BECOME AN AMERICAN CITIZEN

40. THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE OLD TIME ACADIANS

41. THE 25th ANNIVERSARY OF THE CANADIAN FLAG

42. THE OLD SHELBURNE ROAD

43. FORT SAINT LOUIS

44. 465th ANNIVERSARY OF THE NAME “ACADIE”

45 – SENTENCED TO BE HANGED AS A PIRATE, HE DIED A GENTLEMAN, RESPECTED BY FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS

46. THE RISE AND FALL OF LOUIS A. SURETTE

47. THE “FRENCH CROSS” AT MORDEN, N.S.

48. SENTENCED TO BE WHIPPED WITH THE CAT-O-NINE-TAILS

49. CAPT. PIERRE DOUCET (1750-1792)

50. AMABLE DOUCET. Esq. (1737-1806)

51.THE FIRST CHRISTMAS IN NORTH AMERICA

52. DUCKING AND KEEL-HAULING

53. THE VOW OF THE MARINERS

54. THE ESCAPE OF FRANCOIS L. BOURNEUF

55. PUBNICO IS SOMETHING TO BRAG ABOUT

56. THE SEIZURE OF “THE PEMBROOK” BY THE ACADIANS

57. MARIE BABIN OF SURETTE’S ISLAND WAS NOT THE LAST OF THE DEPORTED

58. THE STORY OF THE ACADIAN BELLS: (1) THOSE OF PORT ROYAL

59. THE STORY OF THE ACADIAN BELLS: (2) THOSE OF THE FORTRESS OF LOUISBOURG

60. THE STORY OF THE ACADIAN BELLS: (3) THE OTHERS OF CAPE BRETON

61. THE STORY OF THE ACADIAN BELLS: (4) THOSE OF MINAS BASIN AND THE ISTHMUS OF CHIGNECTO

62. THE STORY OF THE ACADIAN BELLS: (5) THOSE OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

63. THE STORY OF THE ACADIAN BELLS: THOSE ON THE ST. JOHN RIVER, N.B.

64. THE STORY OF THE ACADIAN BELLS: (7) MAINE, ST.-PIERRE-ET-MIQUELON, AND CALIFORNIA

65. THE STORY OF THE ACADIAN BELLS: (8) IN PUBNICO

66. THE SINKING OF THE DUKE WILLIAM AND OF THE VIOLET TAKING THE ACADIANS INTO EXILE

67. HOLY WEEK A COUPLE OF GENERATIONS AGO

68. THE CONFLAGRATION OF 1820 IN CLARE

69. VENGEANCE OF THE MICMACS MOCKED IN THEIR RELIGIOUS BELIEFS

70. CAME TO ACADIA TO FIND ITS LONGITUDE WENT TO SOUTH AMERICA AND DISCOVERED THAT THE WORLD IS FLAT

71. THE ESCAPE OF THE ACADIANS FROM FORT LAWRENCE AT THE TIME OF THE EXPULSION

72. THE ESCAPE OF THE ACADIANS FROM FORT BEAUSEJOUR AT THE TIME OF THE EXPULSION

73 – THE FIRST MASS IN CANADA CELEBRATED ON THE SOUTH SHORE OF NOVA SCOTIA

74 – JEAN CAMPAGNA, THE SORCERER

75. VARIATIONS IN FRENCH FAMILY NAMES IN SOUTHWESTERN NOVA SCOTIA

76. THE BIG STORMS OF THE CENTURIES IN SOUTH-WESTERN NOVA SCOTIA

77. THE ADVENTURE OF BENONI D’ENTREMONT WITH THE “BONAVENTURE”

78. SIMON « SQUIRE » D’ENTREMONT

79. AN ACCOUNT OF THE FLIGHT OF THE ACADIANS AT THE TIME OF THE EXPULSION

80. THE WRECK OF THE TIBEL

81. PUBNICO NATAL DAY – JULY 17

82. CAPE SABLE MIGHT HAVE BEEN THE SEE OF THE FIRST CANADIAN BISHOP

83. LE « KLONDIKE »

84. THE RAILROAD ERA

85. THE ACADIAN SYMBOLS

86. A VOYAGE TO NOVA SCOTIA MADE IN 1731 BY ROBERT HALE OF BEVERLY

87. RESTRICTIONS AND PENALTIES IN DAYS OF YORE

88. MY FIRST ENTRANCE TO COLLEGE

89. HIDDEN TREASURES IN TUSKET ISLANDS

90. A FATHER ASSAILS HIS SON IN COMBAT

91. WAS TO BE SENT BACK TO NOVA SCOTIA FROM EXILE

92. DROPPING THE KING’S NAME FOR SHAME

93. AN ENCOUNTER WITH A GERMAN U-BOAT OFF OUR SHORES

94. BETRAYED IN HIS LOVE, HE DIED OF A BROKEN HEART

95. THE ACADIANS AT HORSE-SHOE COVE PRIOR TO THE EXPULSION

96. THE GHOST SHIP “YARMOUTH”

97. LOBSTER BAY: ITS PLACE NAMES OF YESTERYEAR

98. PLACE NAMES IN WEST PUBNICO REGION

99. THE PLACE NAMES OF QUINAN

100. 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF ST. PETER’S CHURCH, WEST PUBNICO