Extent and Medium of Descriptive Unit
16.5x21.5 silver gelatin dry plate glass negative
Scope and Content
Taken from the hill behind the village looking down the river, south or south west, from left to right are the village church and the complex of the Religieuses Hospitalière de Saint-Joseph de St. Basile, including convent, hospital and boarding school. The meadow or intervale land along the river was a primary attraction for the Acadiens who first settled the area in the 1790s. Canada is in foreground, the United States on the other side of the river.