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What story lives behind a stone in shape of a rock with a cross craved through the middle of it, and letters that spell N Paul, 1754?<br><br> As I was visiting the “Old Acadian French” Cemetery in Lunenburg, NS., I was drawn to a stone shaped like a large rock with a cross and the name N. Paul, 1754 craved into it. I wondered, why was a Mi’kmaq name such as Paul doing on a grave marker in this cemetery. Other than it, the only evidence of Mi’kmaq or Acadian French burials remaining in the cemetery was an Acadian shape cross in the centre of it. The rest were the headstones of Protestants who colonized the area after the Acadians and Mi’kmaq were driven from the shores of Lunenburg. According to Folklore, the Acadian remains were taken to Gallows Hill, Lunenburg, and re-buried there some time ago.<br><br> I quickly learned that this stone was formerly located on the property of Farmer John Anderson’s, 28 Pelham St , Lunenburg . Paul Labrador (Mi’kmaq) lived at this property prior to the building of John Anderson’s house in 1877. When I interviewed the owner of the property, I learned that the stone was the marker of an old Mi’kmaq who died in Lunenburg in 1754. The stone was found , where the driveway is located. The son of the original owner of the house, William Anderson, had a museum on the property and always insisted that the stone remain in front of it. However, after the father died in 1954, the son, who inherited the property, closed the museum and wanted the stone removed.<br><br> As chance would have it, the Town of Lunenburg was constructing new streets in the 1960’s and was removing excess fill from properties. Thus, the stone was thrown in among the fill to be transported elsewhere. Hugh Corkum, then Chief of Police of Lunenburg, recognized the stone as a Mi’kmaq grave marker, retrieved it and took it home and placed it in his rock garden for safe keeping. The late Chief’s son, Hugh Corkum Jr, related to me that his father had told him that “it was an old Indian grave marker.” He further related that the family had, over the years, noticed a mysterious thing about it: “In the winter, the stone would be covered with snow, but the snow always melted around the cross and the name first.”<br><br> After Hugh Corkum Sr had passed away the family felt it was time to move the grave marker to a cemetery. To this end they contacted officials of the Town of Lunenburg, who accepted it, and placed it in the Old French Acadian Cemetery on a cement base. Here, N Paul’s marker, finds its final resting place.<br><br> Before the Foreign Protestants arrived in 1753, Lunenburg was known as Meligeuche.( Mi’kmaq for Clam Beds.) A Mi’kmaq settlement was near the mouth of the harbour, an Acadian cemetery was near by. There was Mi’kmaq living in Lunenburg known as Old Labrador, he lived in area called Garden Lots. The Grave marker was found one street up from the location of the French Cemetery, nowhere near Garden Lots.<br><br> Who was this person? Could he or she have been a relative of Paul Labrador, or was the person buried there before Paul Labrador lived there? What happened to Paul Labrador? Was he buried in Lunenburg, or did he move and die somewhere else? Or was Paul Labrador and N Paul the same person?<br><br> Or was he or she the ancestor of Nicholas Paul who was award second place in a canoe race at Chester Regetta in 1856?<br><br> Anyone with more information on N. Paul, please call Ellen Hunt at 902 634-8017 or email: <a href="mailto:newfie@ns.sympatico.ca.">newfie@ns.sympatico.ca</a>. 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