Author: Larry Peach

The Rendez-vous de la Baie is very pleased to announce that the Le Conseil de développement économique de la Nouvelle-Écosse – BDE is the sponsor of the month for November 2016. Their generous contribution provides everyone with free access to the Acadian Interpretive Centre museum halls.

The Conseil de development de la Nouvelle-Écosse (CDÉNÉ), Business Development and Entrepreneurship Services provides high-quality business services in the rural Acadian and Francophone regions of Nova Scotia. The team members are able to work with you to develop different strategies to manage or grow your business in addition to realizing your ideas to start your own business.

CDÉNÉ primarily offers business counselling and consulting services for aspiring entrepreneurs and for those wishing to expand and/or upgrade their business.

CDÉNÉ provides entrepreneurs a range of information relevant to the business world and frequently organizes networking events. The center conducts numerous activities to raise awareness (especially for young people) to the importance of entrepreneurship.

We invite you to visit our website: http://cdene.ns.ca/en/services/business-and-entrepreneurship

Access to the Acadian Interpretive Centre (Museum) at Rendez-vous de la Baie is now free of charge. New since 2012, the admission fees have been replaced by a Donation box, as well as a new Corporate Sponsorship Program.

For more information on the Corporate Sponsorship Program, please view the PDF.

The Rendez-vous de la Baie is very pleased to announce that the www.claretownship.ca is the sponsor of the month for October 2016. Their generous contribution provides everyone with free access to the Acadian Interpretive Centre museum halls.

We are very pleased to sponsor admission to the ‘Acadian Interpretive Centre’ for the month of October 2016. The Centre is a great introduction to the history of Baie-Sainte-Marie (Clare) and pays tribute to the fortitude and ingenuity of the first settlers to arrive on its shores in 1768. The Centre also beautifully showcases the arts and culture which have evolved at Baie-Sainte-Marie since those early days.

I feel my generation is the bridge between the old and the new; by that I mean we are the last generation in Clare to have experienced a way of life that has all but disappeared. We developed a website to record and preserve the history of Clare for genealogists and researchers in particular, but also for anyone interested in the history of our beautiful Baie-Sainte-Marie, its founding families and their descendants. In Phase One, we photographed every grave-marker in the Catholic cemeteries in Clare and developed a fully searchable grave-marker database; this is currently the backbone of our website. We also added a brief history of the churches and parishes at Baie-Sainte-Marie.

The next module we added was a brief overview of Shipbuilding in Clare, authored by Delbé Comeau. We also worked with Old Photos of Clare to bring you an old photos display at the Rendez-Vous and a rotating slide show in the Acadian Interpretive Centre.

The next module for our website will focus on the founding families of Baie-Sainte-Marie, based on the April 2015 Stephen White lecture at the Centre Acadien and my research into significant published works. Because we plan to keep adding material to our website, check us out periodically at http://claretownship.ca/

– Marcelle Comeau

Access to the Acadian Interpretive Centre (Museum) at Rendez-vous de la Baie is now free of charge. New since 2012, the admission fees have been replaced by a Donation box, as well as a new Corporate Sponsorship Program.

For more information on the Corporate Sponsorship Program, please view the PDF.

The Rendez-vous de la Baie is very pleased to announce that Tradewinds Realty – Sheila Deveau is the sponsor of the month for July 2016. Their generous contribution provides everyone with free access to the Acadian Interpretive Centre museum halls.

Sheila Deveau has proudly made Clare her home for the past 32 years. She lives in Meteghan with her husband Ron and loves all this are has to offer.

Representing Tradewinds Realty since 2008 she is proud to showcase this area to buyers who come to Clare for the first time. Many also fall in love and make this their permanent home. With the great support of her community Sheila has been able to bring awareness of our stunning area to much of the world.

If you are looking to make your home in an affordable and beautiful part of Nova Scotia Sheila will have the home or land for you. If you are selling there is a good chance Sheila can find the right buyer. Contact Sheila and find out why she has fallen in love with this affordable coastline and its people.

Access to the Acadian Interpretive Centre (Museum) at Rendez-vous de la Baie is now free of charge. New since 2012, the admission fees have been replaced by a Donation box, as well as a new Corporate Sponsorship Program.

For more information on the Corporate Sponsorship Program, please view the PDF.

The Rendez-vous de la Baie is very pleased to announce that La Société acadienne de Clare is the sponsor of the month for May 2016. Their generous contribution provides everyone with free access to the Acadian Interpretive Centre museum halls.

La Société acadienne de Clare is made up of individuals and organisations that work together to preserve and promote the Acadian language and culture in the Clare region. We represent La Fédération acadienne de la Nouvelle-Écosse in the Municipality of Clare. We organize many community base projects. Naturally, most of are activities and projects are conducted in our maternal French language, but they do not exclude the participation of the other official language community nor other minority groups. Visit our office at 795 Comeauville, in the Radio-CIFA building.

Access to the Acadian Interpretive Centre (Museum) at Rendez-vous de la Baie is now free of charge. New since 2012, the admission fees have been replaced by a Donation box, as well as a new Corporate Sponsorship Program.

For more information on the Corporate Sponsorship Program, please view the PDF.

Website: www.caissepopclare.com
Contact: Paul-Émile LeBlanc, 902-769-5315
Email: pleblanc[at]caissepopclare.com

The Rendez-vous de la Baie is very pleased to announce that the Caisse populaire de Clare is the sponsor of the month for April 2016. Their generous contribution provides everyone with free access to the Acadian Interpretive Centre museum halls.

Caisse populaire de Clare is a locally owned, progressive cooperative financial institution offering quality, professional and personal service to our members while enhancing the social well-being of the community. The credit union is a full service financial institution offering products and services for personal and commercial members. They have two full service branches/ATMs located in Church Point and Meteghan.

Access to the Acadian Interpretive Centre (Museum) at Rendez-vous de la Baie is now free of charge. New since 2012, the admission fees have been replaced by a Donation box, as well as a new Corporate Sponsorship Program.

For more information on the Corporate Sponsorship Program, please view the PDF.

The Rendez-vous de la Baie is very pleased to announce that the Le Centre acadien is the sponsor of the month for December 2015. Their generous contribution provides everyone with free access to the Acadian Interpretive Centre museum halls.

The Centre acadien of Université Sainte-Anne carries out the dual mission of promoting research in Acadian studies and of supporting researchers at the University, whatever their discipline may be. Founded in 1972, the Centre possesses a collection of primary and secondary sources related to the past and contemporary reality of the Acadians that is the most comprehensive one of its kind in Nova Scotia.

The Centre acadien contains over 10,000 volumes and 100 linear meters of manuscripts and other original documents, in addition to several collections of recorded interviews about yesteryear’s way of life and recordings of vocal and instrumental music from Nova Scotia.

The Centre acadien is particularly proud of its many collections of photographs of Acadian life, taken by such renowned photographs as D.B. Field and John Collier, Jr., as well as its nearly complete collection of French-language newspapers published in the Maritime Provinces.

Access to the Acadian Interpretive Centre (Museum) at Rendez-vous de la Baie is now free of charge. New since 2012, the admission fees have been replaced by a Donation box, as well as a new Corporate Sponsorship Program.

For more information on the Corporate Sponsorship Program, please view the PDF.

The Rendez-vous de la Baie is very pleased to announce that the Le Conseil de développement économique de la Nouvelle-Écosse – BDE is the sponsor of the month for November 2015. Their generous contribution provides everyone with free access to the Acadian Interpretive Centre museum halls.

The Conseil de development de la Nouvelle-Écosse (CDÉNÉ), Business Development and Entrepreneurship Services provides high-quality business services in the rural Acadian and Francophone regions of Nova Scotia. The team members are able to work with you to develop different strategies to manage or grow your business in addition to realizing your ideas to start your own business.

CDÉNÉ primarily offers business counselling and consulting services for aspiring entrepreneurs and for those wishing to expand and/or upgrade their business.

CDÉNÉ provides entrepreneurs a range of information relevant to the business world and frequently organizes networking events. The center conducts numerous activities to raise awareness (especially for young people) to the importance of entrepreneurship.

We invite you to visit our website: http://www.cdene.ns.ca/Entrepreneuriat.aspx

Access to the Acadian Interpretive Centre (Museum) at Rendez-vous de la Baie is now free of charge. New since 2012, the admission fees have been replaced by a Donation box, as well as a new Corporate Sponsorship Program.

For more information on the Corporate Sponsorship Program, please view the PDF.

The Rendez-vous de la Baie is very pleased to announce that the www.claretownship.ca is the sponsor of the month for October 2015. Their generous contribution provides everyone with free access to the Acadian Interpretive Centre museum halls.

We are very pleased to sponsor admission to the ‘Acadian Interpretive Centre’ for the month of October 2015. The Centre is a great introduction to the history of Baie-Sainte-Marie (Clare) and pays tribute to the fortitude and ingenuity of the first settlers to arrive on its shores in 1768. The Centre also beautifully showcases the arts and culture which have evolved at Baie-Sainte-Marie since those early days.

I feel my generation is the bridge between the old and the new; by that I mean we are the last generation in Clare to have experienced a way of life that has all but disappeared. We developed a website to record and preserve the history of Clare for genealogists and researchers in particular, but also for anyone interested in the history of our beautiful Baie-Sainte-Marie, its founding families and their descendants. In Phase One, we photographed every grave-marker in the Catholic cemeteries in Clare and developed a fully searchable grave-marker database; this is currently the backbone of our website. We also added a brief history of the churches and parishes at Baie-Sainte-Marie.

The next module we added was a brief overview of Shipbuilding in Clare, authored by Delbé Comeau. We also worked with Old Photos of Clare to bring you an old photos display at the Rendez-Vous and a rotating slide show in the Acadian Interpretive Centre.

The next module for our website will focus on the founding families of Baie-Sainte-Marie, based on the April 2015 Stephen White lecture at the Centre Acadien and my research into significant published works. Because we plan to keep adding material to our website, check us out periodically at http://claretownship.ca/

– Marcelle Comeau

Access to the Acadian Interpretive Centre (Museum) at Rendez-vous de la Baie is now free of charge. New since 2012, the admission fees have been replaced by a Donation box, as well as a new Corporate Sponsorship Program.

For more information on the Corporate Sponsorship Program, please view the PDF.