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The writer remembers, that over twenty-five years ago, the late George Waugh, who was a great authority on local history, took him near to the site of the old millrace of Wellwood Waugh which ran through the then orchard of Flemming Waugh and there digging in the ground a few inches unearthed a mineral substance which resembled half-refined copper ore. Mr. Waugh said that never in the time of the permanent settlers had copper ore been either mined or refined there, and that the only conclusion he could come to was that it had been the work of the French . From 1755 to 1768, Tatamagouche was again an uninhabited wilderness. Spruce bushes pushed their heads up through the ridges where the Acadians once grew their peas and grain; rapid growing alders, birch and maple switches spread over the fields in which the Acadians once swung scythe and sickle; dykes fell into decay and the tide flowed at will over the marshes; while the few remaining habitations rotted into ruin and disappeared. Once more nature ruled alone disturbed only by the sounds of running water, of tide and sea, of storm and wind, of the call of bird and beast, and of the occasional voices of stray Acadians and of wandering Micmacs. Back |
