• The Poirier family

    Tracing the Poirier Family. On Meacham’s map of Lot 1 as you can see by the two red X marks, that Isidore Gaudet lived about one quarter of a mile from the centre of Tignish on his 50 acres of land, and Jean Sosime Poirier’s land was in Palmer Road, with his 45 acres, not far from the church. In the 1863 Baker/Lake map of the Island, several Perry properties are identified in the Palmer Road area indicating that that these farms had been bought when the landlords were forced to sell to the tenants around the time of Confederation. Here is a detail that shows the specific location of…