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perous settlement. 01d stories were told and hand-

ed down. father to son, from the first British

settlers in this district, of the discovery of ruins of French cabins or huts and the remains of tire-

places. The Helm family, out from Scotland in the

‘ early lBOO'e were encouraged to build their first

saw will on the upper right fork of Sable River on site of an old French mill, and evidence that the

stream had been damned.nany long years before.

The Acadian French settler always dyhed the marsh- land along the rivers to provide pasture in summer

and hay for livestock in winter.

Even today 1975, the remains of dykes_can plainly be seen on the eastern bank of the main Sable River above the Trans Canada road and bridge: these earth- works were named “The Frenchman's Banks" by the

early British settlers.

Probably the first eettler in this area; - always called ”Sable“ (Say-hle) by the old timers was a Scotchnan who, not only spelled his name Stuart, but claimed relationship with the Royal Stuarts of Scotland. He built his sturdy log house, which,