Photographs of
French Cross 1755
Monument
Morden Kings County Nova Scotia
GPS location: 45°06’13″N 64°56’57″W
French Cross monument, looking west over the Bay of Fundy
French Cross monument, looking north toward Isle Haut
French Cross monument, looking northeast over the Bay of Fundy
The above photographs were taken on 2 June 2003.
Black Winter At French Cross by Peter Landry
http://www.blupete.com/Hist/Gloss/FrenchCross.htm
Memorial Cross Erected At Morden Berwick Register, 8 October 1924
http://www.rootsweb.com/~canbrnep/mecrermo.htm
Little Village of Morden… by C. R. Gould
http://www.rootsweb.com/~canbrnep/mordenhist.htm
The French Cross at Morden
http://members.tripod.com/~norma_doucette/NovaScotia9index-2.html
The “French Cross” at Morden, N.S.
by Father Clarence d’Entremont, Yarmouth Vanguard, 21 November 1989
…Before leaving Morden, they erected over the tombs of those who were
not able to make it, a large black cross, that withstood the elements of
nature till about 1860, thus over one hundred years. After a number of
years, the people of Morden, who had seen the wooden cross, decided
to erect another one, to keep alive the tradition of this episode of the
Expulsion of the Acadians. This was in 1887 when an oak cross was
erected, as close as possible to the location where the first cross stood,
which location has been eroded by the sea. It was replaced in 1920 by
a third cross, this time made of rounded beach stones. As people who
were coming to see the cross were increasing in number, it was decided
twenty five years ago, that is in 1964, to build here a park and to erect
a more artistic cross, the one that Idescribed above. Its unveiling
took place the 29th of August of that year…
http://web.archive.org/web/20010228045517/
http://www.ccfne.ns.ca/~museum/english/archives/articles/47.htm
