On the property near to the dykelands, we still see these 400 year old trees and roots planted so many years ago near St-Charles-des-Mines Church.
They were silent witnesses to all that happened that memorable day of September 5, 1755, when the Deportation Act was read and the Deportation ensued. The willows and the dykes were all that was not destroyed by the British when they deported our Ancestors from their beloved Acadia.
These are the Acadian Ancestors who had pioneered and were living at Grand-Pré in 1693: André LeBlanc and Marie Dugas Germain Thériault and Anne Richard Vincent Longuépée and Madeleine Rimbault François Rimbault and Marie Babin Louis Labauve and Marie Rimbault Charles Babin and Madeleine Richard Vincent Babin and Anne Thériault René LeBlanc and Anne Bourgeois Jean Doucet and Françoise Blanchard Pierre Richard and Marguerite Landry Pierre Granger and Isabelle Guilbeau Michel Vincent and Marie Richard Pierre Melanson and Marguerite Mius Jacques LeBlanc and Catherine Hébert Jean Landry and Cécile Melanson Guillaume Trahan and Jacqueline Benoit Alexandre Trahan and Marie Pellerin Michel Forest and Marie Petitpas Pierre Forest and Cécile Richard © Lucie LeBlanc Consentino Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home 1998 - Present Please Navigate This Web Site Using The Sidebar To The Left If You Do Not See A Sidebar Click Here
André LeBlanc and Marie Dugas Germain Thériault and Anne Richard Vincent Longuépée and Madeleine Rimbault François Rimbault and Marie Babin Louis Labauve and Marie Rimbault Charles Babin and Madeleine Richard Vincent Babin and Anne Thériault René LeBlanc and Anne Bourgeois Jean Doucet and Françoise Blanchard Pierre Richard and Marguerite Landry Pierre Granger and Isabelle Guilbeau Michel Vincent and Marie Richard Pierre Melanson and Marguerite Mius Jacques LeBlanc and Catherine Hébert Jean Landry and Cécile Melanson Guillaume Trahan and Jacqueline Benoit Alexandre Trahan and Marie Pellerin Michel Forest and Marie Petitpas Pierre Forest and Cécile Richard