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| Day 12 - Caraquet, NB | ||
 8:00 coffee and Bob & Sue's drew a crowd today, but not until about 8:30 AM when many of us realized we had not set ahead the bedroom clocks to Atlantic time. |
 Today we visited Village Historique Acadien. The admission is included as part of the Caravan. The Acadians are the descendents of the first French Colonists who settled in Acadia in the 1700's. Acadia consisted of most of the Canadian Maritimes. |
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 This was a wonderful place to visit. It represented the progression of the lifestyle of the Acadians, the early Canadians, from the mid 1700's to the early 1900's. The house above was built in the mid 1700s. |
 This house was one of the earliest homes built in 1740 |
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 Each house had their own garden. |
 And the ladies of the house prepared the meals for the day. This was not for show, as you will see later, the food is used to feed the volunteers at the park. |
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 Susan tries her hand at a hand pump. Yup, I remember using one of these for real. |
 They had shuttle service around the park for anyone who would like to ride rather than walk. |
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 These fences separated all the farms. Some were stacked like this and other ware tied together by heavy vines. |
 She was actually spinning wool. |
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 Here she demonstrates how she adds the raw wool into the thread she is spinning. They would also spin flax and use that for shirts. It was much finer and softer than wool. |
 The finished product, died and ready for use. |
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 Another house where the lady is preparing lunch over a wood fire. |
 They wore wooden shoes. These were by the front door. |
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 A typical farm yard with the house and outbuildings and the garden to the right (out of sight). |
 Looks like Joe Barack is trying to convince Susan that yes indeed, this is the ladies room. |
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 A double team wagon goes by. |
 This house was larger than most and was built in the 1800's. The inside walls were finished and it had an upstairs bedroom. |
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 This is the local store and post office. |
 Some of the goods for sale in the store. |
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 They also had a printing press, |
 a tavern, |
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 a carpenter. Here he is demonstrating to us how he builds a bucket. A very fascinating process. |
 This family is eating the meal the lady of the house prepared at the house using the local food. |
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 In case you are wondering why the guy on the right is not wearing a colonial uniform, it is because he is Mike Morrell from our caravan. I guess Mike looked hungry so the bachelor farmer invited him to sit down and eat lunch with him. |
 Of course, now Mike had the look down pat; he tried it on the pie lady and it worked! Mike is enjoying a piece of pie that just came out of the oven. |
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 This is the Grist and Carding Mill where they make flour (grist), and stretch wool (carding) |
 The bottom of the grist mill where the flour is sacked. |
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 These are the separators and filters that separate out the various flours |
 The carding mill where wool is stretched prior to spinning it into thread. |
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 The covered bridge on the property. |
 View across the lake looking at the back of the grist and carding mill. |
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 This is the newest area of the town representing the 20th century. The Hotel Albert is in the background. This is a reproduction of the hotel that was in downtown Caraquet until it burned down a number of years ago. It was rebuilt here and just re-opened two years ago. It does rent the rooms and it has a full restaurant. |
 Many of us remembered using the gravity gas pump. You pumped the gas up into the glass containers to certain levels on the glass containers and then drained it into your gas tanks. |
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 A 1926 Ford with the gas station attendant standing beside it. |
 This is the bar at the hotel. |
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 The train station has also just been built and it was not yet open. |
 We all wanted to try this one out. It looks like a bicycle with an outrigger to go on the tracks. |
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 Everyone was in awe of her stove. It dates back to the early 1900's. |
 This house was built in the 1900's and as you can see, there is a great deal of European influence in the design. |
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 Two of our guests went to the Aquarium in Marin. It was small, but it has some interesting displays. |
 This was on the same property as the Aquarium. |
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 The inside of the aquarium. |
 They had two of these very rare blue lobsters on display. |
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 By the coast we found these boats lined up in dry dock. Not sure if they were built there or if they were just being refurbished. |
 Peat processing and sales is a large part of the economy in this part of the Gaspe. This peat bog had an elevated walkway through it. |
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 We had our driver briefing in one of the shelters. |
 Moishe was passed onto Rick Leonard for pulling two of our rigs out of the mud a couple days ago. Thanks Rick! |
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Click here for a Google map of above pictures. |
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