Rivière-à-Bourgeois

This southern Cape Breton community was colonized after the Deportation by the Cordeau, Pâté and Richard families. During the 1770s these families left île Madame, Cape Breton in search of new lands from which they could continue fishing. The name Rivière-à-Bourgeois comes from the fact that many merchants who were also "bourgeois" (middle class citizens) lived there.

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