ABOUT KOUCHIBOUGUAC HERITAGE

Preserving a history
carried by families.

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Kouchibouguac Heritage is an independent digital heritage project dedicated to preserving and sharing the stories, memories and family histories connected to the communities affected by the creation of Kouchibouguac National Park.

Historical Kouchibouguac community photograph

A place shaped by families, community and memory.

OUR STORY

A history that belongs
to the families.

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Long before Kouchibouguac National Park was created, families lived, worked and built communities across these lands.

During the creation of the park, many residents were displaced and their properties were expropriated. Homes, roads, farms and entire communities changed, but the memories connected to those places did not disappear.

Kouchibouguac Heritage was created to help preserve those histories — through family stories, photographs, oral histories, documents, maps and memories passed from one generation to the next.

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WHAT WE'RE PRESERVING

Keeping the stories together.

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Kouchibouguac Heritage brings together the family histories, voices, photographs, documents and places that help tell the story of the communities connected to these lands.

Family Histories

Names, genealogies, household histories and connections between generations.

Voices & Memories

Oral histories, personal recollections and memories shared by former residents and descendants.

Photographs & Documents

Family photographs, correspondence, records, maps and other historical material.

Places & Communities

The homes, roads, settlements and landscapes remembered by the families of Kouchibouguac.

OUR MISSION

Preserve. Remember. Share.

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Our mission is to help ensure that the history and living memory of Kouchibouguac remain accessible to the families connected to these lands and to generations still to come.

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Preserve

Safeguard photographs, documents, family histories, oral histories and other records before they are lost to time.

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Remember

Honour the people, families and communities whose lives were connected to the lands that became Kouchibouguac National Park.

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Share

Make these histories accessible so descendants, researchers and future generations can discover, understand and carry them forward.

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The history of Kouchibouguac is more than the history of a park. It is the history of the people who called these places home.