The Cheticamp Solution

Place Names Chéticamp Isle of Jersey North America

Imagine yourself an Acadian fisherman in Chéticamp in the 1800s.

Years ago, your French parents had thriving farms in what we now call Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. They had called their home Acadia. But the English won control over Acadia when they defeated the French in 1755. The English did not trust the French-speaking Acadians. The peaceful farming life of the Acadians was over.

The English had forced your parents to leave their farms with nothing but what they could carry. They forced your parents to leave Acadia and go to other countries. The English even put some Acadians into a prison in England. Finally, your parents arrived at Chéticamp as free people. The waters were teeming with fish and the English finally granted them land. Surely now you will have a better life than your parents did, if you work hard.