Student Essay

 

Map of 1755 showing Acadian settlements. Chipoudie (Shepody) settlement is marked as well as Thibodeau Brook where the grist mill was built by the first French settlers, Pierre Thiboudeau and his sons.	These are original mill stones from the grist mill built by Pierre Thibodeau and his sons, the first French settlers who came to Shepody in 1698 from the Port Royal settlement across the bay.

Rt. Hon. Richard Bedford Bennett was Canada's Prime Minister from 1930-1935.He was born in Shepody (formerly called Hopewell) in his grandmother's home, but he grew up as a young boy in Hopewell Cape.	This is where former Prime Minister R.B. Bennett was born in 1870. It was his grandmother's home in Shepody (formerly called Hopewell). Albert County can boast of being the birthplace of the only New Brunswick native to have served as Prime Minister of Canada.

Building an aboiteau on Shepody marsh around 1870. The men using oxen, horses,spades, forks and drags built the aboiteau of mud, brush, and logs to keep the tidal waters from flooding the marshland.	Historical map of entire region, then called Shepody, showing the British land grants.

Logging by horse in Shepody in 1935. Men in photo are left to right, Otto O'Hara, Hugh Wright and Harvey Wright	Making hay on Shepody marsh in 1917.