St. Pierre, opposed to Port La Joye. It was also documented that there was “approximately, one large beast, one sheep or pig and one fowl per person in St. Pierre.” (35) In the following year, 1753, there were as many as 73 people living in the French settlement at Greenwich. (36)

Photo courtesy of the Prince Edward Island Public Archives” ;

Thomas Pichon, who came to Ile St. Jean in 1752, was one of the last French travelers to come and leave written accounts of his journey. St. Pierre was one of the first stops on his journey. Most noteworthy of his remarks were his comments about the mouth or entrance to St. Pierre’s Harbor. He pointed out that this entrance was choked with sand, a problem that exists to this day. He was probably one of the first people to recommend that a breakwater be placed in the entrance to the Bay. Pichon also stopped at Naufrage during this trip and described it as being called after a French ship that had been shipwrecked there. (37)

EXPULSION OF THE FRENCH

The next few years were ones of turmoil for all French settlers and Acadians living in the Maritime area. Because the French population would not swear allegiance to the British King, six to seven thousand Acadians were deported from the Bay of Fundy area in 1755. lmmortalized by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his 1847 book Evangeline, he creates a sense of the tragedy undergone by these people

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