HERITAGE OF KENT COUNTY
by Bill Morris

BRIEF OVERVIEW

Kent County was first inhabited by the Mi'kmaq people.  Artifacts have been found in the area of Tjipogttjg dating in age of over 10,000 years.

The first French European settlers are thought to have arrived in present day Richibucto with Champlain in 1604, thus giving it the distinction of possibly being the first Euorpean community in Canada.

A Jesuit mission was established near present day Richibucto in 1609.

The population remained small with few English settlers until after New Brunswick was formed in 1784. Acadian settlers who had been expelled from Nova Scotia in 1755 settled in present day Bouctouche in the late 1700's.

By the 1850's the population had grown to approximately 15,000 people. ~~~

Bonar Law Historic Site
Village of Rexton, Route 11 and 116
506) 523-7615
1-800-561-0123
This site is the birthplace of Bonar Law, former British Prime Minister, and interprets the way of life on a nineteenth century farm./ Lieu de naissance de l'ancien premier ministre britannique BONAR Law, le lieu historique BONAR Law, situé à Rexton sur le bord de la rivière Richibucto, interprète le style de vie d'une ferme du 19e siècle.

Musée de Kent
150 Chemain Couvent Road, Bouctouche, New Brunswick
(506) 743-5005
Ancien Couvent Immaculée-Conception. Édifice datant de 1880. Visites
guidées permettant de découvrir la vie scolaire et la vie de pensionnat.
Artefacts et artisanat acadiens (courtepointes, poterie, travaux à la
main). Galerie d'art et boutique de souvenirs./ A convent, built in 1880 in the Second Empire style.. Guides dressed as boarding students will acquaint you with the history, the student life and the architecture of this old educational institution.

Monument Lefebvre NHS
Monument Lefebvre National Historic Site and the Acadian Odyssey Exhibit
c/o Kouchibouguac National Park Kent County
New Brunswick Canada
E0A 2A0
Telephone: (506) 758-9783 (in season) ; (506) 876-2443 (off season)
Fax:(506) 758-9813 (in season)

Beaubears Island National Historic Site
186, Route 117
Kouchibouguac National Park, New Brunswick
Canada
E4X 2P1
Telephone: (506) 851-3083
Fax: (506 ) 851-7079

New Brunswick's Designated Provincial Historic Sites

Eglise Saint-Anne-de Kent
Saint-Anne-de-Kent built  1886

St. Lawrence Anglican Church Bouctouche built c.1865

Convent of the Immaculate Conception Bouctouche built 1880

Le Monument Notre Dame de L'Assomption Rogersville