History of Bouctouche, Kent, New Brunswick, Canada

in 1871 "Buctouche" had a population of 500: in 1898 it was a sub-port of entry and the terminus of the Moncton and Buctouche Railway: Bouctouche also had 1 post office, 12 stores, 4 hotels, 1 butter factory, 1 grist mill, 1 sawmill, 2 carding mills, 1 boot and shoe factory, 1 tannery, 3 smelt packing plants, a quarry, oyster beds, 4 churches and a population of 800.

St. John, New Brunswick, Aug. 11. - An extra edition of the Moniteur Acadien contains the following particulars of the great storm at Buctouche:

About 1 o'clock Wednesday afternoon the sky was covered with dark, thick clouds, and heavy thunder-claps were heard in the distance. This presaged a tempest, but nobody expected the terrific one that so frightened the peoople of North Bank. Some thick clouds plowed the sky, and two especially, enormously large and black, approached each other from opposite directions, and came into collision at Rich Cove, about two miles above St. Mary's Church. The shock was terrible, forming a waterspout conical in shape and frightful in size. The cyclone, moving toward the east, traversed several small woods, uprooting and raising everything in the course of its passage for a width of two acres. Three farm houses, with barns and stock, were scattered about the fields. After describing a circle toward the north, the waterspout fell upon a barn and...

"Buctouche, vil., New Brunswick, co. Kent. on B. river, 21 m. NNE. of Shediac. P. 500. Contains shipyards."

MONCTON, N. B.., Sept. 28. Evidence accumulates that the fire which destroyed Bouctouche last week was set by incendiaries who wished to cover up their smuggling. Two young men, one named Renoud, son of the collector of customs, and a
former member of parliament, have been arrested, charged with incendiarism and when the sheriff was taking them to jail he was fired at from the woods, showing the existence of a band of desperadoes. The inhabitants of the village are terrorized and dare not openly give expression to their suspicions.