We camped on the river/bay near Campbellton, New Brunswick. Here’s the bridge from Quebec to New Brunswick.
The bridge from Quebec to Campbellton, New Brunswick. There was a beautiful sunset that night.
Nearby was a lighthouse and sculpture park.
Almost every town has a little lighthouse like this. This one was in Campbellton, NB.The Atlantic salmon runs in this area.
Even though we are in New Brunswick, and the official language is English, there is still a lot of French here. When the British took this area from the French, the Acadians resisted, so the English deported them everywhere else such as to Montreal, Quebec City, the United States or back to Europe. But they kept coming back and trying to reestablish. The Village Historique Acadien is an effort to remember their settlement here. It’s a village depicting their lives from 1773 to 1945 with historic buildings and costumed interpreters.
Most of the houses looked like this – wooden and surrounded by fields of flax, buckwheat, and hay.This was in the earliest building. The house had a dirt floor and he is wearing wooden clogs. They learned how to make leather moccasins from the Indians, and they had their use, but the clogs kept their feet warmer and didn’t get as wet.Since they were French, they liked their bread. This is an outdoor bread oven. The tee-pee behind it is how they used to dry wood to be cut into firewood.For my sewing friends, have you ever seen a machine like this? That’s a hand crank on the right.Most would store their wood in the woodshed.Later on they got into fishing and exporting. This barn was used to process and store fish.One area of the village was more modern, up to 1945. This is a an old gas station.They still take guesst in this old hotel. The bar is to the right side.The stove store had some stoves I haven’t seen before.
I found this side trip on the way to the next campground.
Pokeshaw Rock. It looks a bit messy up top.It’s a colony of cormorants. I think all the poop has killed the trees, but they make nice roosts for the birds.
Our campground tonight is Colibris sur Mer which translates to Hummingbirds on the Sea. It’s right on the beach.
The water was surprisingly warm. But the beach is pebble and very slippery in the water.I pretended I was looking for fish fossils because the cliffs are all shale and sandstone, just like Mishguasha. But I found only leaf fossils.
You do love those historic villages 😉