Frosty Hollow
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Frosty Hollow

On 16 May 1952, the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada
unveiled a cairn to commemorate the site of an early Mi'kmaq/Acadian
portage at Frosty Hollow, near Sackville, New Brunswick.
This portage helped link the Acadian settlement of Beaubassin
with the Memramcook Valley and was an essential part of the
communications network between Acadia and New France.
After the British conquest the portage continued in use until
the first road connecting the Memramcook Valley with the
Tantramar Region was built.  The event also focussed attention
on the convergence of several other canoe/portage routes through
the Mi'kmaq district of Siknikt – now the Isthmus of Chignecto...
Source:
Paddling Through History: The Portage Routes Of Siknikt/Chignecto
by Bill Hamilton, Sackville Tribune-Post, 24 May 2002
    http://www.billhamiltonflashback.ca/listnews.php?
          id=99&cid=1&searchtext=&offset=20

Ancient Indian Portage Tantramar Historic Sites
This route from the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the Bay of Fundy was
the chief means of communication between Quebec, Isle Royale, and
Chignecto.  The portage connected the Baie Verte and Missaguash rivers.
    http://heritage.tantramar.com/HS17_1.html

Marked Historic Sites in Sackville and Area – 17th Century and Earlier
    http://heritage.tantramar.com/HS17C.html

Acadian Settlement by Mount Allison University, Sackville, New Brunswick
...The French hold on the region was a tenuous one following the Treaty
of Utrecht in 1713 which granted much of Nova Scotia to the British.
The Isthmus of Chignecto, with its position at the head of the Bay of Fundy,
formed one of a series of uneasy frontiers in the contest between the French
and the English for control of the region. For the Acadians living on or near
the marshes, these events formed an unwanted intrusion on the demands of
everyday life.  Their preoccupation was with the maintenance and extension
of their marsh agriculture and with trade that was as much dependent upon
markets in Boston as it was with supplying the French colonial bastion at
Louisbourg.  In Chignecto these geopolitical events led the French authorities
to build two defensive positions: Fort Gaspereaux on the Northumberland side
of the Chignecto isthmus, and the larger Fort Beausejour on the Fundy side,
which were operational by 1755.  At about the same time the British authorities
constructed Fort Lawrence on an adjacent ridge so that these two defensive
positions faced each other in the middle of the marsh.  The climax of this
struggle came with the defeat of French forces by the British, both at Chignecto
and in the larger geopolitical struggle for North America in 1755...
    http://www.mta.ca/marshland/topic4_acadians/acadian.htm

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