Genealogy of the Poirier Family in Chéticamp: The André line

Genealogy of the Poirier Family in Chéticamp: The André line
Author: Jean Doris LeBlanc
Publisher:
Total Pages: 350
Release: 1985
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

Jean Poirier (ca. 1626-ca. 1654) immigrated from France to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and married Jeanne Chabrat. André Poirier (ca. 1793- 1869), direct descendant in the seventh generation, lived in Chéticamp, Inverness County (part of Cape Breton Island), Nova Scotia, and married twice. Descendants and relatives lived in Nova Scotia and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to Massachusetts and elsewhere in the United States.

Cape Bretoniana

Cape Bretoniana
Author: Beaton Institute of Cape Breton Studies
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 814
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780802087126

Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island is a beautiful region with a unique community whose history and ethnic composition have resulted in the evolution of a powerful sense of identity and place. While outsiders may think only of the island's perennial economic woes and long economic dependence on coal mining and steel production, it is also the home of a rich, vibrant, and distinct culture. Brian Douglas Tennyson's Cape Bretoniana is the first bibliography to gather together all known publications relating to the history, culture, economy, and politics of Cape Breton Island. With more than 6000 entries, it not only provides a comprehensive listing of publications and post-graduate theses, but also detailed annotations on the listings. Each entry lists the author, title, place of publication, publisher, date of publication, volume and issue number in the case of periodicals, and page references, followed by a brief description of the item. Cape Breton has never been so thoroughly documented. This bibliography will help to ensure that ? even in a world becoming increasingly homogenized by the forces of globalization ? unique cultural identities like Cape Breton's can be preserved and nurtured.

Canadian Books in Print 2002

Canadian Books in Print 2002
Author: Edited by Butler Marian
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1632
Release: 2002-02
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780802049742

Containing more than 48000 titles, of which approximately 4000 have a 2001 imprint, the author and title index is extensively cross-referenced. It offers a complete directory of Canadian publishers available, listing the names and ISBN prefixes, as well as the street, e-mail and web addresses.

A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland

A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland
Author: John Mack Faragher
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 609
Release: 2006-02-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0393242439

"Altogether superb: an accessible, fluent account that advances scholarship while building a worthy memorial to the victims of two and a half centuries past." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme" to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French") from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable families, and driving many into forests where they waged a desperate guerrilla resistance. The right of neutrality; to live in peace from the imperial wars waged between France and England; had been one of the founding values of Acadia; its settlers traded and intermarried freely with native Mikmaq Indians and English Protestants alike. But the Acadians' refusal to swear unconditional allegiance to the British Crown in the mid-eighteenth century gave New Englanders, who had long coveted Nova Scotia's fertile farmland, pretense enough to launch a campaign of ethnic cleansing on a massive scale. John Mack Faragher draws on original research to weave 150 years of history into a gripping narrative of both the civilization of Acadia and the British plot to destroy it.