Karen has asked some interesting questions. At the risk of perpetuating myths whose origin I can no longer recall, let me try some of them. Laurenbec is now known as Little Lorraine. Halifax Harbour was known as Chebucto (various spellings). Annapolis Royal was known as Port Royale. Baie des Espagnols is Sydney Harbour, probably both branches. Baie de L'Indienne is Lingan (the village near New Waterford where the power station now stands). Settlers whose birthplace is given as L'Acadie (or similar) were probably born on the mainland, then resettled in Cape Breton (French territory) after mainland Nova Scotia became British territory in 1748. Just as Scottish settlers were sometimes endentured to pay their passage to North America, the same was true of some French settlers. They had to work for a specified period of time to pay off their debt. Settlement around Baie des Espagnols was probably more around what is now South Bar and Whitney Pier than on the north side of the harbour, largely because the land on that side of the harbour was more easily worked. That said, the Westmount area and Upper North Sydney would also have been fairly attractive. It is perhaps significant that both areas were grabbed up quickly by Loyalists. (I suspect there is a fair bit of room for archaeology in those areas.) Peninsular Sydney was probably not settled at all by the French, largely because it is quite rocky; as a result, it had to be cleared of forest in 1784. Supposedly, and I would really like to have a source for this, what we now call Lingan Road follows the route of a French road between Lingan and Sydney Harbour. The 1752 census would have been the last conducted by the French administration. Unfortunately, and contrary to what I recall being taught in school, after the second fall of Louisbourg, the Expulsion of the Acadians was extended to Cape Breton and Prince Edward Island. Those listed in the 1752 census would have been caught up in that. While some of the French settlers managed to hide out in the forests and with the native people, many were sent to English colonies in what is now the US. The limited census of 1818 reveals no French surnames in areas like River Inhabitants. I have no idea what records survive, if any, of who might have been sent where. Doug Grant