still on this Cairn Farm thing - with interesting developments (sort of) - or maybe I am trying to make them into a story - I had never looked up the definiton of Cairn until today - and when i did, I thought back to my visit to Aunt Laura's place and the current opwner showing me a pile of rocks he had made. I played back my video to hear him describe that it was an inukshuck - a directional marking made by the inuit people of newfoundland /Labrador. I never asked him why he made it - but I find it intersting that it is basically the same meaning as a cairn - Current owner didn't know why the farm was named cairn except that there are foundations all around the property left from when it was burned down by the English. Am I boring you all or does anyone see some neat connection here? So now I am wondering about a connection between the Micmacs and inuits - were they basically in the same general area enough that micmacs probably also built inukshucks? I'm trying to write up siome neat little thing about connections in history of the property --- On Wed, 12/3/08, George F. Sanborn Jr. <SeorasOg@eastlink.ca> wrote: From: George F. Sanborn Jr. <SeorasOg@eastlink.ca> Subject: Re: [NS-CB] Cairn Farm To: swayball20@yahoo.com, "cape breton mailing list" <ns-cape-breton@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 9:40 AM Maybe because there was a cairn on the property? ----- Original Message ----- From: "lauren macdonald" <swayball20@yahoo.com> To: "cape breton mailing list" <ns-cape-breton@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 10:32 AM Subject: [NS-CB] Cairn Farm > Taking a stab here - No one in my family knows the answer (though i do have a call out to a cousin), so I'm hoping someone here will know or add to my guess - My aunt who lived at man O War Point, Boularderie, named her property (or at least had a sign on her barn), "Cairn Farm" Any guesses at why? > > Thanks! > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NS-CAPE-BRETON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I love to see a story tying all the family research together so I know where you are coming from with this. The info from the current owner (foundations all around the property etc. etc...burned out by the English) may or may not be correct, perhaps this might be a place to start looking for answers. If so, there were probably French settlers living on that place, it would be interesting to try and find this info, if it exists. The English attacked and captured Louisbourg in 1745 and again in 1758. It wouldn't hurt to check out the Fortress Louisbourg web site, it might have clues for you. Cape Breton has a lot of history that you could weave a story around within your family information. Then again the simple explanation may just be ... they named it Cairn Farm because the ground was very rocky (strewn with boulders) and they had to work very hard to make a living off of it. Even if this is the case you can still weave a story around that as well. Something to think about. Bernardine ----- Original Message ----- From: "lauren macdonald" <swayball20@yahoo.com> To: "cape breton mailing list" <ns-cape-breton@rootsweb.com>; "George F. Sanborn Jr." <SeorasOg@eastlink.ca> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 12:22 AM Subject: Re: [NS-CB] Cairn Farm > still on this Cairn Farm thing - with interesting developments (sort of) - > or maybe I am trying to make them into a story - I had never looked up the > definiton of Cairn until today - and when i did, I thought back to my > visit to Aunt Laura's place and the current opwner showing me a pile of > rocks he had made. I played back my video to hear him describe that it was > an inukshuck - a directional marking made by the inuit people of > newfoundland /Labrador. I never asked him why he made it - but I find it > intersting that it is basically the same meaning as a cairn - Current > owner didn't know why the farm was named cairn except that there are > foundations all around the property left from when it was burned down by > the English. > > Am I boring you all or does anyone see some neat connection here? > So now I am wondering about a connection between the Micmacs and inuits - > were they basically in the same general area enough that micmacs probably > also built inukshucks? > I'm trying to write up siome neat little thing about connections in > history of the property