16 = Historical Guidebook of the Evangeline Region 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Joe Placide Arsenault 
     
     with Félix Arsenault’s 
     
     family. This photo, taken 
     
     in 1899, shows a musical 
     
     tradition still alive today 
     
     in this family from St. 
     
     Chrysostome. The elderly 
     
     man with the fiddle is 
     
     Joseph (Joe Placide) 
     
     Arsenault (1820-1906), 
     
    

    
     a son of Julitte Arsenault, 
     
     who composed the bal- 
     
     lad Le Départ de Malpéque 
     
     (see pp. 11-13). He is sit- 
     
     ting with his son Félix’s 
     
     family. (Musée acadien 
     
     Collection) 
     
    
   
   
    
     A few years after his wife died in 1829, Charles moved to the 
     
     Island and settled in Maximeville. He remarried in 1843. His 
     
     second wife, Agnés Mazerolle, was from the village of Brae in 
     
     Lot 10. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Bernard 
     
    
   
   
    
     The Bernards of Acadie are descendants of René Bernard 
     
     and Madeleine Doucet, who were married in 1689, probably 
     
     in Port-Royal. They later moved to Beaubassin (near present- 
     
     day Amherst, Nova Scotia). Their grandson, Joseph Bernard, 
     
     and his wife Natalie Arsenault took refuge in the Chaleur Bay 
     
     area during the Deportation and later settled in Malpeque. 
     
     They are the ancestors of the Bernards on the Island. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Caissie 
     
    

    
     Roger Casey, born in Ireland around 1648, is the ancestor 
     
     of the Caissie family in Acadie. He married Marie-Francoise 
     
     Poirier in Port-Royal around 1668 and then settled in 
     
     Beaubassin. Some of the members of their family were de- 
     
     ported to the Anglo-American colonies and to France while 
     
     others managed to escape. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Mathias Caissie, born in Richibucto (New Brunswick) in 
     
     1811, was the first Caissie to put down roots in Egmont Bay. 
     
     He arrived in about 1831 and married Marguerite Arsenault. 
     
     His father’s first cousin, Jean Caissie, who was born in Grande- 
     
     Digue (New Brunswick) in 1802, brought his family to Egmont 
     
     Bay around 1840. He was accompanied by his second wife, 
     
     Madeleine Boucher.