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Marshland: Records of Life on the Tantramar
Retrieval Number: 8629/B3/1/3 Photograph of an aboideau by Heather Bembridge, from the Marsh Project, 1977-1978. Mount Allison University Archives, Sackville Community ...- www.mta.ca/marshland/topic4_acadians/aboideaux.htm
The Centre for Canadian Studies :: Mount Allison University
These early Acadian settlers also regulated the flow of the tides in several rivers by constructing aboideaux at their mouths.- www.mta.ca/faculty/arts-letters/canadian_studies/sawdon/sawdon.html
Past History
... hold back the tides, a writer of 1710 described the dykes, "They stopped the current of the sea by creating large dykes, which they called "aboideaux"- crl.library.ns.ca/amhersthistory/past3.htm
CBC.CA - Seven Wonders of Canada - More Wonders - The Seven Wonders of ...
... marshlands built dykes to hold back the tides, a writer of 1710 described the dykes, "They stopped the current of the sea by creating large dykes, which they called "aboideaux"- www.cbc.ca/sevenwonders/more_wonders_new_brunswick.html
Song of Acadia
Before generations of fishers wrote their script of weirs along the shore, the Acadians used an alphabet of aboideaux, an ingenious system of dikes and sluices, to write their ...- www.corporate.canada.travel/en/ca/mediacentre/story_ideas/distinct_canada/song_of_acadia.h...
OSPD Polyorths
aargh aarrgh aarrghh ablings ablins aiblins aboideaus aboideaux aboiteaus aboiteaux acalephae acalephes acalephs accidia accidie acedia actiniae actinians actinias adobe dobie doby ...- www.cs.princeton.edu/~amitc/Scrab/polyorth.html
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Newsletter #30
... he was the first or not is perhaps not open to much doubt, but history certainly records Joseph de la Loutre, that determined opponent of British rule in Acadia caused aboideaux ...- heritage.tantramar.com/WFNewsletter_30.html
Association of British Scrabble Players - Words
ABOIDEAUS or ABOIDEAUX. abonnement : a subscription, as for a season ticket or newspaper. abrege : an abridgment. abri : a bomb shelter. absinth absinthe : the wormwood plant or other species ...- www.absp.org.uk/words/french.html
Westmorland County GenWeb
GenWeb site for Westmorland County, N.B. ... RECORDS OF CHIGNECTO BY William Cochrane MILNER (1846-1939) *Chignecto Project Electronic Edition, January 1999.- www.rootsweb.com/~nbwestmo/recschic.htm
www.rootsweb.com
The Acadians had not cleared a wide stretch of upland, nor did they build aboideaux across the creeks. Their dikes skirted the rivers and creeks.- www.rootsweb.com/~canwgw/archives/nb/sackvill.txt
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