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 guess so - the current owner of the property showed me a rock pile he had made and I thought he said it was what the Indians used to do to mark a path - and that one would look through the opening in the pile to see what direction to go - In looking up "Cairn" i read of it being a Scottish /Gaelic word. Either way, I wondered if the property had several of them from previous inhabitants or what. I'm working on a photo book and am trying to write up a little something to make a story out of it - but don't want to be making up facts --- 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