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MUSEE KENT MUSEUM | POINTE-A-JACQUOT | BOUCTOUCHE | NEW BRUNSWICK | NB | CANADA

Visit: www.museedekent.ca/index-eng.php

 

Please visit the Web site, which offers a historic of the Museum as well as a photo gallery and will give you a taste of your visit.

 

Info from: www.museedekent.ca/index-eng.php

 

Situated at "la Pointe-à-Jacquot", this beautiful building of the neo-gothic revival style is still a gathering point for the Acadian community of Bouctouche.

 

Formerly the Convent of the Immaculate Conception, it played an important role in the Acadian renaissance. The Museum offers an insight into life at a boarding school in the 19th and 20th century and gives an overview of the regional way of life. Its Chapel has been recognized as an architectural gem.

 

History

 

Marguerite Maillet, a teacher, donated a 40-acre piece of land for the construction of a convent. Soon afterwards, she becomes a nun with the Sisters of Charity of the Immaculate Conception (SCIC) and takes the name of Sister Marie-Julienne. In 1892, she is named Sister Superior at the Bouctouche convent, a position she will hold until her death in 1911.

 

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