04_The_search_for_port_la_joye_p_3-8.pdf

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title	The Search for Port la Joye
creator	Ferguson, Rob
subject	Island Magazine
subject	Prince Edward Island Museum
description	Such accidents are not uncommon in Island history. While crossing the North River in April 1737, a treacherous season for travellers, Michel Hache- Gallant broke through the rotting ice and drowned. At his death Gallant was in his mid-70s the patriarch of a large, extended family of Acadian colonists, and had spent 17 years in the French settlement of Port La Joye on fie Saint-Jean. Besides his considerable progeny, he left behind a farm near the colony's administrative headquarters. Eightyears later New England militiamen put it to the torch. Two and a half centuries later, in 1987 and 1988, a team of archaeologists from the Canadian Parks Service located and unearthed a dwelling on Hache-Gallant's land, seeking insights into the first French settlement on Prince Edward Island.
publisher	Prince Edward Island Museum
date	1990
type	Document
format	application/pdf
identifier	vre:islemag-batch2-355
source	27
language	en_US
rights	Please note that this material is being presented for the sole purpose of research and private study. Any other use requires the permission of the copyright holder(s), and questions regarding copyright are the responsibility of the user.

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title	The Search for Port la Joye
creator	Ferguson, Rob
subject	Island Magazine
subject	Prince Edward Island Museum
description	Such accidents are not uncommon in Island history. While crossing the North River in April 1737, a treacherous season for travellers, Michel Hache- Gallant broke through the rotting ice and drowned. At his death Gallant was in his mid-70s the patriarch of a large, extended family of Acadian colonists, and had spent 17 years in the French settlement of Port La Joye on fie Saint-Jean. Besides his considerable progeny, he left behind a farm near the colony's administrative headquarters. Eightyears later New England militiamen put it to the torch. Two and a half centuries later, in 1987 and 1988, a team of archaeologists from the Canadian Parks Service located and unearthed a dwelling on Hache-Gallant's land, seeking insights into the first French settlement on Prince Edward Island.
publisher	Prince Edward Island Museum
date	1990
type	Document
format	application/pdf
identifier	vre:islemag-batch2-355
source	27
language	en_US
rights	Please note that this material is being presented for the sole purpose of research and private study. Any other use requires the permission of the copyright holder(s), and questions regarding copyright are the responsibility of the user.