sponsor of the month – Page 2 – Rendez-vous de la Baie

Mark’s RV & Auto Repair

Civic Address: 9865 Hwy 1, Saulnierville NS B0W 2Z0
Website: http://marksrvandautorepair.com/
Contact: 902-769-2323 or 902-769-7353 Fax: 902-769-3722
Email: info@marksrvandautorepair.com

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Fort Anne
Website: www.parcscanada.gc.ca/fortanne
Contact: (902) 532-2397
Address: 323 St. George St. Annapolis Royal NS

Port-Royal Habitation
Website: www.parcscanada.gc.ca/portroyal
Contact: (902) 532-2898
Address: 53 Historic Lane Port Royal NS

Rendez-vous de la Baie is very pleased to announce that Fort Anne and Port Royal NHS are our partners for the month of July 2017. Their participation provides everyone with free access to the Acadian Interpretive Centre museum halls.

Fort Anne

Fort Anne is the oldest national historic site in Canada, designated in 1917.
Over 4000 years ago the Mi’kmaq used this location as a stopping place in their voyages. In the 1600s and 1700s, the site was the centre  of early European colonization and settlement in the area called Acadie by the French, Nova Scotia by the British. The French and the British in turn had their colonial capitals here. This was one of the most hotly contested territories in North America. The 1702 earthworks are the earliest Canadian example of a Vauban-style fort. Come Explore!

Port-Royal Habitation

The Port-Royal Habitation is a reconstruction of a small French compound begun in 1605. It was home to one of the earliest European settlements on this continent. Mi’kmaq people lived along these shores for centuries and it was here that the French and the Mi’kmaq formed an enduring friendship and alliance. The Habitation survived until 1613 when it was destroyed in an attack by Captain Samuel Argall of Virginia. As you visit the Habitation you will have the chance to discover the trials and successes of the French colonists who settled for a time along this coast. Plan to spend an hour or more at the site exploring the buildings, the wigwam and talking with the costumed interpreters.

Special Reminders: Remember that all Parks Canada places have free entry this year in honour of Canada’s 150th anniversary. Make a point of stopping at Fort Anne to see the new interactive exhibits now open.

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 Since 2012, the admission fees have been replaced by a Donation box, as well as a new Corporate Sponsorship Program.

441 St. George Street, Annapolis Royal
Website: www.historicgardens.com
Contact: Trish Fry, 902-532-7018
Email: admin[à]historicgardens.com

The Rendez-vous de la Baie is very pleased to announce that Historic Gardens of Annapolis Royal is the sponsor of the month for June 2017. Its generous contribution provides everyone with free access to the Acadian Interpretive Centre museum halls.

Located in historic Annapolis Royal, the Historic Gardens was recently selected as “One of 5 North American Gardens Worth Travelling For”. With 17 acres of gardens telling the story of Nova Scotia from a horticultural perspective, the Gardens are a “must see” attraction. One highlight of significance is the reproduction of a 1671 thatched Acadian house garden and dyked lands, reminiscent of the time when the Annapolis Royal area was thriving as the Cradle of Acadie.

In 2015, the Historic Gardens was selected as Canada’s Garden of the Year, and in 2017, recognized as a Canada 150 Garden Experience.

Website: www.saclare.com
Contact: Elaine Thimot, 902-769-0955
Email: info[à]saclare.com

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 2017. 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.

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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.

Caisse populaire de Clare Website: www.caissepopclare.com
Contact: Renel Doucet, 902-769-5315
Email: rdoucet[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 2017. 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.

ATM Caisse populaire de Clare

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.

Le Conseil de développement économique de la Nouvelle-Écosse – Business Development & Entrepreneurship (BDE)

Website: http://cdene.ns.ca/en/services/business-and-entrepreneurship
Contact: André LeBlanc 902-769-3902
Email: entrepreneur@cdene.ns.ca

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 March 2017. 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

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

Mark’s RV & Auto Repair

Civic Address: 9865 Hwy 1, Saulnierville NS B0W 2Z0
Website: http://marksrvandautorepair.com/
Contact: 902-769-2323 Fax: 902-769-3722
Email: info@marksrvandautorepair.com

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Le Centre acadien

Website: https://www.usainteanne.ca/centre-acadien
Contact: Carmen d’Entremont 902-769-2114, poste 7204
Email: centre.acadien@usainteanne.ca

The Rendez-vous de la Baie is very pleased to announce that the Le Centre acadien is the sponsor of the month for December 2016. 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.

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

Le Conseil de développement économique de la Nouvelle-Écosse – Business Development & Entrepreneurship (BDE)

Website: http://cdene.ns.ca/en/services/business-and-entrepreneurship
Contact: André LeBlanc 902-769-3902
Email: entrepreneur@cdene.ns.ca

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.

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

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

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

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www.claretownship.ca

Website: http://claretownship.ca/
Contact: Marcelle Comeau (902) 989-1954
Email: mmcomeau@outlook.com

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

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