This is my home. I am from Baie-de-Petit-Pokemouche, just at the entrance of Shippagan. I moved to Trois-Rivières, Quebec for four years to settle with my girlfriend who is from Shawinigan. We bought our house here in September and moved in may so now I am back in my home and I am glad that my girlfriend is happy to call this place home. Thank you for a very well detailed explanation of our people's history and a beautiful video! You are welcome back in our neck of the woods anytime you like! Cheers et salut! 👋🏻
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
Merci beaucoup! You have a beautiful home, and your ancestors have a fascinating history there. Thank you very much for watching and for commenting!
@laughingram7287Ай бұрын
Very interesting history about the Acadians. Also interesting how there is a tie to the Cajuns in Louisiana. Your electrical system is impressive. You should get an Honorary Electrical Engineering Degree! Ram 👍🏼👍🏾
@GrandAdventureАй бұрын
Funny that you say that, Ram, for my first two university years were spent working towards an EE degree before switching to the business school. But my design is sloppy. I've got a friend Darryl who used to be a military aircraft mechanic. Now that's the system you should see! It's as neat and orderly as a microchip clean room.
@cirrus820travelers93 ай бұрын
You tell the best narratives of the places you travel. It's a real pleasure to view & subscribe to your channel. Safe Journey!
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
You're much too kind, thank you very much!
@karenlanteigneАй бұрын
That was a great explanation of my home town and region. I loved how you captured the beauty of our islands. Thank you for this great vlog. I shared so friends can watch and get to know more about our heritage ❤
@GrandAdventureАй бұрын
Thank you so very much, Karen! We loved visiting your area and meeting your people.
@acecomet3 ай бұрын
Nice video ! 👍 i just enjoy living near the ocean. It’s a great place ! Vive l’acadie !
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
It sure is. Thanks for watching, and for commenting.
@SL_BA3 ай бұрын
What a Grand Adventure! Wow....the views are just stunning. The lighthouses are my favorites ❤
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
Thank you! If you like lighthouses, you're going to love our episode from PEI that will premiere in 2 weeks. We devoted an entire segment of that episode just to lighthouses on PEI.
@e-square99763 ай бұрын
❤You’re absolutely amazing! The research, the filming, the paired music….stunning work! Thank you. Mr. GA.
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
@@e-square9976 thanks so very much as always! Glad you enjoyed this one.
@danielguychiasson13 ай бұрын
Thank you, thank you very much welcome to New Brunswick I stayed in Lamèque I really like the video you subscribed!!!!welcome!!!!
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
Thank you Daniel! We've found the folks in NB to be very welcoming.
@BugCrush3rАй бұрын
Thanks for the video of our beautiful part of the world here, just one small correction, There is no Canadian Tire store in Shippagan, the closest one is in the city of Tracadie-Sheila about 25minutes away.
@GrandAdventureАй бұрын
@@BugCrush3r our pleasure, and I see you are correct! I'm not quite sure where I got that from.
@nationalparksprincess32163 ай бұрын
This was an amazing episode! I can't wait for next week 😊
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
Thank you so much NPP, and thanks for joining us at the Premiere event.
@leeproffitt693 ай бұрын
That video was a lot of fun to watch. Thanks for doing. It looks really nice.
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
Happy to hear that you enjoyed it, Lee. Thanks so much for watching.
@dougross49523 ай бұрын
Mark, thanks for this in depth tour of a few of our great provinces - the best of any of the You Tube channels we follow. Hopefully you come out to the prairies one day. Happy RVing!
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
We'll be there some day for sure, Doug, and thank you for your kind words! After this season we'll have every state in the Lower 48 checked off. We're eyeing a potential run to Alaska next year, which will check off Alberta, BC and the Yukon, too. After that, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario would be logical next steps.
@SuperBanana453 ай бұрын
great vid great views n narrative , im glad to call this place my home from tracadie
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
@@SuperBanana45 Thank you! We always love to receive kudos from locals.
@joannewinters96163 ай бұрын
❤ very interesting thank you❤❤
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
Thank you Joanne!
@SevenBears13 ай бұрын
Thanks GA.. Love the history lessons.
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
Thank YOU as always, J!
@georgecarpenter41263 ай бұрын
Marc - I have a lot of friends here in Louisiana whose ancestors are from that area. That's all I got for now !!!! Stay safe...
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
I'm fascinated by that connection between the Acadians and the Cajuns, George. It's fun to hear of your tangential connection to that connection, too.
@ShawnPatterson4023 ай бұрын
Another great video Marc. We have also camped at Camping La Vague. We also met our New Brunswick mosquito there, but nonetheless a wonderful spot. And yes Fried Clams has to be one of my favorites as well. Continued safe travels....
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
Your New Brunswick mosquito is a tenacious little devil. Their welcoming committee was out in full force.
@BlissfullyBearFoot3 ай бұрын
@@GrandAdventureI recently moved here & it had me rethinking my decision! 😂
@normgibson65653 ай бұрын
CHEERS Marc from Box Elder SD. Great video as always enjoy your travels.
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
Thanks as always, Norm! Enjoy your travels through the Dakotas.
@marcomorissette79403 ай бұрын
Another great video Sir with nice views! 🇨🇦👍
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
Thank you Marco!
@joemiles69173 ай бұрын
Looks beautiful.
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
It sure was, Joe. Thanks for coming along.
@patricktraynor3493 ай бұрын
Thanks for the very informative episodes with exceptional video quality! I’d like to suggest a trip to Newfoundland for you as there are many unique places to visit with lots of history, scenery and very friendly people as well while you’re on the East Coast of Canada!
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
Thank you very much, Patrick! We had given serious consideration to Newfoundland, but the cost in terms of time, logistics and money (the ferry) was too substantial for us to invest in it this season. Had I known that I could've taken our RV to France for bragging rights (St. Pierre & Miquelon) I might have given it more consideration, but so be it. It'll have to wait for a subsequent season.
@Seemore7243 ай бұрын
My wife and I are in Nova Scotia presently, hope to see you here!
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
@@Seemore724 keep your eyes open! We'd love to meet you.
@kateleblanc6043 ай бұрын
I'm an Acadian resident on the Baie. It was explorer Jacques Cartier who gave the BAIE des CHALEURS ,which translates to English as bay of heat, its name. He went so far as to suggest that it was warmer than parts of Spain.
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
Thanks for that tidbit, Kate!
@BlissfullyBearFoot3 ай бұрын
I just recently moved here & it’s true!
@najruqwi70083 ай бұрын
So sorry I missed your live stream but I am watching it now 👍
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
But you were there! And we were very happy to see that.
@almisami2 ай бұрын
It should be said that you missed the other restaurant on Miscou island, it's situated in the old schoolhouse building and offers a more diverse assortment of foods, unlike the seafood-specialists at Steve's Terrace on the wharf.
@GrandAdventure2 ай бұрын
Thanks for that info! It's very, very well hidden, for it didn't appear in either the visitor center guide to the island or even Google Maps. Plus, I must've driven past it at least a dozen times and never saw a sign.
@southerngirlyall64973 ай бұрын
That's a great campground rate!
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
@@southerngirlyall6497 we haven't found any wacky prices up here the way we'll find in some parts of the States. Plus, with the exchange rate our US Dollar is like a 26% discount.
@elizabethharper81823 ай бұрын
I really enjoyed this video. Miscou is where I was born and brought up.
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
@@elizabethharper8182 Thank you Elizabeth! You grew up in a beautiful place.
@svpseavousplay27453 ай бұрын
Hey Marc, we are in Shediac, NB. We love your channel. Hope you make it down here.
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
Thank you! We passed through Shediac 10 days ago en route from Kouchibouguac to PEI. Even stopped in the Canadian Tire there for a few essentials. Now we're on Cape Breton Island.
@gorrdd3 ай бұрын
Marc, Did you cruise the coastline along your way? Hope to see that this evening. 😊 Gord
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
It's virtually impossible to not do so, Gord. This island is at the very tip of the peninsula and is only a few miles wide and about a dozen miles long. You have to travel along the coast.
@gorrdd3 ай бұрын
@@GrandAdventure Yes... I looked at the map and that is what I was seeing as well. Gord
@moimacart3 ай бұрын
Sad that you forgot about two thirds of the Peninsula. Regions like: Tracadie, Paquetville, Grand-Anse and Néguac. The Acadian Peninsula limits are about between Miscou, Grand-Anse, Néguac, Allardville and everything in between. This video only shows the North Eastern part of it. That being said, it's still a very nice video. Sorry for my English not being so good, French is my native language.
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
Your English is far better than my French. 😁There's only so much that we can squeeze into one episode, so we have to draw a limit somewhere. And thank you for the compliment!
@garrycowan47473 ай бұрын
Je suis aussi de la péninsule, sur l'le de Lameque 😃. Votre commentaire est très bien rédigé 😊
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
@@garrycowan4747 merci Garry!
@gorrdd3 ай бұрын
Thanks Marc... another great episode adventure along the Canadian coast. It sure has its own remote beauty. In the evenings, when it became much cooler outside. We're the squitoes as bad? On the really boggy islands, did they have to originally bring in land fill by hand to build up the surface from the bog? Or were there already areas of higher ground to camp on? It was too hard to tell from your video. Virtually everything looked like a bog. Bogs can be very dangerous if you don't know what you are doing. How curious that both early French Acadians and French Creole in Louisiana sought out this kind of wet, impassable, mosquito infested territory to settle in.🧐 Gord
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
Funny that you draw the comparison between the bogs of New Brunswick and the swamps of southern LA. I hadn't thought of that, but that's very true. The islands are a mix of forest and bog. If I had to guess, around 50/50 on Miscou, and somewhat less on Lemeque. So they had land upon which they could live and land that they could clear to farm.
@gorrdd3 ай бұрын
@@GrandAdventure Thanks Marc. That makes sense... but 50% is a huge amount isn't it. Ireland also has its share of bogs in certain parts. I wonder if these people always lived in those places. Bogs can be farmed for their peat... then dried and burned as a fairly high btu fuel. But the skitoes... Maybe they didn't wash very often and simply had that permanent aroma that kept the things away. 🤔 Gord
@bellabeetleproductions_dogdad22 күн бұрын
I just spent all day smoking mackerel at a cottage less than 1km from Camping La Vague. No mosquitos in October
@GrandAdventure22 күн бұрын
@@bellabeetleproductions_dogdad It sounds like the time to be there! And dang, that smoked mackerel sounds terrific.
@bellabeetleproductions_dogdad22 күн бұрын
@@GrandAdventure I have a few videos of things on Miscou Island on my other channel kzbin.info/aero/PLfCtfoHJm9fVdpx0DdK2r8wLuX4uyV3lT BTW, I also wrote much of the wikipedia entry for Miscou. Thanks for giving everyone a history lesson.
@GrandAdventure22 күн бұрын
@@bellabeetleproductions_dogdad I'll go check those out, thanks for that! And thanks for providing that Island history, for as you already know I leaned on it heavily.
@bellabeetleproductions_dogdad22 күн бұрын
@@GrandAdventure My dogs have their own (more successful) channel, here's some drone footage from further down the beach: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaGxd5SBgMmpaa8 BTW, I grew up on Miscou, but don't live there
@GrandAdventure21 күн бұрын
@@bellabeetleproductions_dogdad beautiful.
@maranddoug3 ай бұрын
Marc, just wondering did you have this summer trip all planned out ahead of you setting out? You have found the most perfect campgrounds. Thanks for showing us around!!
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
Thank you! As much as it pains me to have any kind of plan, yes -- this year's swing through the eastern US and Canada required extensive pre-planning completed throughout this past spring.
@arnoldcomeau80153 ай бұрын
Nice video but you forgot about Tracadie another major town in the Penininsula.
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
Thank you Arnold! But we didn't forget, we just ran out of time. There's only so much one can see in a week and squeeze into one 30-minute episode. Next time!
@devildog76023 ай бұрын
It looks like low bush blueberries around those peat bogs.
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
We thought the same thing.
@thereborne521916 күн бұрын
from tracadie, tho im in dieppe for college.
@carmellejolin28663 ай бұрын
Hey, pas d’arrêt à Campbellton?
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
Nous sommes passés par Campbellton en route de Percé vers l'île Miscou, mais nous ne nous y sommes pas arrêtés cette année.
@joemontague2173 ай бұрын
Hello Mark
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
Howdy Joe! Hope to see you in the chat room tonight.
@doneason44943 ай бұрын
Enjoying the trip in Canada, any chance in a visit to PEI?
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
Thank you Don! You bet, PEI coming up in 2 weeks, and we found a gem of a campground.
@devildog76023 ай бұрын
Now I want some whole belly clams ... YUM!!!
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
My second favorite food in the whole wide world!
@melodyassaro3 ай бұрын
Evening all
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
We were happy to see you join us last night, Melody. Thanks so much for coming.
@expendablegerbil3 ай бұрын
Not to be nitpicky but you don't pronounce the "U" in "Caraquet" (it's more like "Caraket").
@GrandAdventure3 ай бұрын
We appreciate the correction! The funny thing is we looked it up beforehand. 😄 So you can't trust everything you read on the Internet. 😉
@expendablegerbil3 ай бұрын
@@GrandAdventure In all honesty it was probably pronounced in the original Mi'kmaq, but no one around here pronounces it nowadays.
@dhebert111Ай бұрын
@GrandAdventure Hey there. Thanks for the video on our Area. I'm curious, did you interact with a lot of locals? I'm from the Acadian Peninsula, and I've been all over the country too, and I've found people in the Maritimes to be great people to visit and live with. Generosity, humility, hospitality, are among the strongest adjectives you hear when describing the people in the area. Of course I might be a bit biased, but I definitely agree with the depiction. I was born in the town of Souris PEI, and our family moved to the Acadian Peninsula when I was around 9 or 10. My father is from here, so half of my family are from here and the other half is from PEI, so I feel at home in both places and feel incredibly blessed to have that experience. Thanks again for showcasing our little area, and hopefully it inspires many more people to come visit. We love sharing our culture and history. I'm going to check out your videos over these next few days, but just in case you haven't been yet, I'd strongly recommend visiting Souris PEI. They have a port and ferry that brings you to the Archipelago of The Madeleine Islands, which are both beautiful places to visit. Have a great time.
@GrandAdventureАй бұрын
@@dhebert111 thank you! We visited Souris in our Episode 369 kzbin.info/www/bejne/enbIlqKLeal6epo as we stayed very near there. And we agree 100% with your depiction of the Acadian people. We felt very, very welcome in the region.