Misner shares little-known historical tidbits about Kings County HISTORY

When you leave Highway 359 in Steam Mill and turn onto North Aldershot Road, you soon reach one of the most overlooked historical areas in Kings County.

Here, just before Lakewood Road, is an Acadian site on the Canard River.

Historical researcher Garnet Misner tells me that where the bridge spans the river, the Acadians put in an aboiteau and diking. This is believed to be the first area the Acadians diked in Kings County. From there, the Acadians moved down the Canard River, building a series of running dikes, aboiteaus and cross dikes, the latter now highways running north-south through prime farmland.

The work the Acadians did where North Aldershot Road crosses the Canard River isn't visible today. The site is historic but it isn't marked; that it was a “first” as far as Acadian history goes is largely forgotten. But for researchers like Misner, historical sites such as this wouldn't be