Abbreviations used
Date April 3 1879
County Westmorland
Place Sackville
Newspaper Chignecto Post
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
Philip BOURQUE, age 30, s/o Louis Q. BOURQUE who held the office of Clerk of the Peace for the District of Clare, Digby Co., N.S. for many years, was knocked off the main boom of schr. "Gazelle" while about 4 miles off Yarmouth Head and was drowned about 2 o'clock Sunday morning.