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Two fire towers were located in the Saint-Elzéar area to monitor the forest and warn about fires in the village: one on the montagne de la Tour, the other at the top of the côte à Hector (Arsenault), Hector’s Hill in English. Simultaneously a playground for kids who loved climbing and workstation for the fire rangers, the two towers punctuated the landscape with their elongated silhouettes.
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[FRENCH] Interview with Marie-Louis and Monette Bourdages, April 10, 2025.
“My pôpa worked on the fire tower for a while.”
“This village was built after a fire.”
The fire rangers.
[FRENCH] Interview with Louisette Henry, April 9, 2025.
Explanation of how Saint-Elzéar was “colonized.”
“It was either lightening or negligence.”
His mother moved to Saint-Elzéar with the first “settlers” in 1924.
[FRENCH] Interview with Pâquerette Poirier and Michel Beaupré, May 15, 2025.
The two fire towers: la montagne de la Tour and côte à Hector.
The Acadians survived thanks to the Mi’kmaq.
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1. Marie-Claude De Souza, 2026.
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