Photographs courtesy of Conrad Poirier

New France / North Grant / North Lake Stream / North Lochaber 

NEW FRANCE, Antigonish County
    Settlement S.E. of Antigonish, formerly Rear Fraser's Grant, it was named New France because a group of French speaking families settled among the Scots. Among the Acadians were Bonvie, Boudrot, Delorey, Gigneau, Melanson and Perault, and among the Scots were Cameron, Chisholm, Fraser, MacDonalds and McNeils.
    The school section of New France was established in 1895 but the school was closed in 1955 and the section joined to Fraser's Grant because poor farm land resulted in depopulation.

NORTH GRANT, Antigonish County
    A settlement north-west of Antigonish.
    The eastern section of the Yankee Grant was called the North Grant because it was north of Antigonish. The first settler on the road from Antigonish to the Gulf shore was one MacCann who built a frame house using as corner posts four trees standing in their natural position. Neil and Ewan MacKinnon made the next clearing in 1824 on four hundred acres they had purchased from Sir Charles Mary Wentworth. A few years later settlers came names Campbell, Delaney, Grant, Johnston, Kennedy, McDonald, McIsaac, MacKinnon, McLeod, MacPherson, Ronan and Siggins. In the mid-nineteenth century they were joined by Irish families who migrated by way of Newfoundland or Guysborough county. In 1898 it was a farming settlement with a population of 75.
    The first school was kept in one end of the dwelling of Neil MacKinnon who had been teaching school at Williams Point. In 1831 he was still teaching there. A new school house was built at Upper North Grant in 1884. In1903 the school sections of Lower North Grant and Upper North Grant were consolidated as North Grant section No. 61
    In 1889 the name of part of North Grant was changed to Strathmore but that name has disappeared from common usage.
    The population in 1956 was 134.

NORTH LAKE STREAM, Antigonish County
        Stream flows S.E. into North Lake near Georges Bay so called because it runs into North Lake.

NORTH LOCHABER, Antigonish County
    Settlement south west of Antigonish so named because it is north of the lake.
    See LOCHABER