Project   Mapping of Minas Acadian hamlets

The following headlines are documentation to be explored in order to extract
any clues that might help map the acadian hamlets named in Col Winslow list

• Information from John S. Erskine, Dec 1975
• Information from E.L. Eaton,
• Information from B. Preston, 1971
• Information from Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton, 1910
• Information from New Minas Acadian Heritage Sites Committee
• Information from Censuses:
  • 1686 (Mines)
  • 1693 (Mines)
  • Genealogy of Census 1693
  • 1701
    • Grand-Pré
    • Riv. Canards
    • Riv. Vieux Habitants
    • Riv. St-Antoine
    • Riv. Gaspereau
    • Riv. Kiniscour
    • Riv. l'Ascension
    • Riv. Ste-Croix
    • Cobequid
      
      
  • 1703 (Mines)
  • 1707 (Mines)
  • 1714
    • Grand-Pré
    • Gaspereau
    • Riv. Habitants
    • Riv. Canards
    • Riv. Vieux Habitants
    • Pisiguit
    • Wacobeguit
• Information from Winslow's list
• Information from St-Charles-aux-Mines Church records
• Information from local oral tradition
  • Canning Excavator (interview 2005)
  • Bishop farm historic trail
  • Aylesford farm historic cellars
• Information fromChurch's map, 1864
• Information from Acadia University's archives
• Information from Kings Co Museum's archives
• Information from Ed Coleman columns
• Information from The Blomidon Naturalists Society publication
• Information from Canning Museum
• Hants County Acadians Vignettes
  
  

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  To do: Tentative map of Canard River settlement
  To do: Tentative map of Habitant & Pereau settlement
  To do: Tentative map of St-Antoine river settlement
  To do: Tentative map of Grand-Pré settlement