French settlers did live on Boularderie Island in the 1700's. The name of the island came from Louis-Simon Poupet, Chevalier de la Boularderie. He had a huge estate, over 100,000 acres, farmed by tenants. He had 25 personal retainers who operated his wind and water mills, a large dovecote, a dairy and extensive kitchen gardens. Nearby at Port Daupjin the French had constructed a fort, a naval shipyard, a lumber mill and a forge. Many small crafts were built here for the community. They also built a French warship, a flush decked frigate of 36 guns. The names of the settlers can be found in the 1752 census by LaRoque. Charlene McKenzie On 4-Dec-08, at 11:29 AM, B.A.Campbell wrote: > 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 > > > > ------------------------------- > 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

Thanks Charlene - and Bernardine  i do know a bit about the French history - though am not really covering it in this family history book except very briefly - mostly, because I have to meet a deadline to get it done for Xmas --- On Thu, 12/4/08, Charlene McKenzie <cfraser@accesscable.net> wrote: From: Charlene McKenzie <cfraser@accesscable.net> Subject: [NS-CB] Boularderie Island To: "B.A.Campbell" <iamacopper@sympatico.ca> Cc: "C.B. Mailing List" <NS-CAPE-BRETON-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, December 4, 2008, 12:11 PM French settlers did live on Boularderie Island in the 1700's. The name of the island came from Louis-Simon Poupet, Chevalier de la Boularderie. He had a huge estate, over 100,000 acres, farmed by tenants. He had 25 personal retainers who operated his wind and water mills, a large dovecote, a dairy and extensive kitchen gardens. Nearby at Port Daupjin the French had constructed a fort, a naval shipyard, a lumber mill and a forge. Many small crafts were built here for the community. They also built a French warship, a flush decked frigate of 36 guns. The names of the settlers can be found in the 1752 census by LaRoque. Charlene McKenzie On 4-Dec-08, at 11:29 AM, B.A.Campbell wrote: > 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 > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 ------------------------------- 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