MISSION 07 ST. ALEXIS POLLO PAY When in 1755 the bastardly edict went forth, which ccmir.an.-jed the expulsion of the Acadians from 3rane Pre o»* the shores of the Boy of Fundy, six families more fortunate than the others managed to keep together. They suspected the treachery underlying. Captain Murray 's proclamination so escaped, the GuetaneuT (snare) which was set for thera at Grand Pre, They did not repair to the church, 'but concealed themselves in the woods and from their hi-ling place saw their homes in flanes and their flocks scat!' r red. Having prepared some large c&no03 called ? i ■ ■> ues or dug outs, they made their way across the gulg to the He 3t. Jean and landed at Point© Prime. These people were John and Acbropse Bourqu- -iid their families, Joseph Pitres and family, Eonore Michael, a (black- end th) and wife, no family, Leblanc and family, Chais»on and family. When they arrived at Pointe Prime Mr. Chaisson addressed them "in many happy words", they then knelt and gave thanks to 5od for having delivered them out cf the hands of their enemies, and for bringing them to a place of refuge. After which, so tradition *,; v. s, they "made the best feast they could, to cheer everybody". Finding after a short sojourn pt Fointe Prime that they vere not safe from the English who at that time frequented Port La Joie, the> took their canoes i >no paddled up to Bay Fortune where they were joined by five or six families from St. Peter 's Harbour. These people had been suffering from th* measles when their unfortunate country- n,.., -.---- shipped from St. Peters , ■ .1" being t -,o 111 * -1 be mov»- •, ■•■■-■ ^ expat¬ riation, A few families of Chiveries, u'Aigles and othsrs who ,,-•- - . ■.■■. 1. ' or 1 ' i v.-.l > t 3f.» ge Harbour 'emoved later I Li ' ' !•■ '•.'.•■■:•, to the pouth sf Bay Fortune (now Fa rich.) Daring the first few ye- ■•■ '.'■-■ t these Ac«<1iant spent in Pay Foil •• th-y rr *' to take the -,•-. Lh of Alleginnce ar.d ver* ded as prisoners of *ar. Every