FREDERICTON Parks Canada is offering to move the belongings of the late Jackie Vautour out of New Brunswick s Kouchibouguac National Park. But Vautour s son calls the offer shameful and says he ll continue his father s 50-year battle against expropriation of their land. It s so shameful, Edmond Vautour said in an interview Thursday. A letter like that just two months after my father passed away. Imagine how my mother felt to hear that. The elder Vautour remained on his property, on the east coast of the province, after the park was created in 1969, living in a cabin without electricity until his death in February of this year.
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Acadian group in N.B. praises life of Jackie Vautour, who resisted expropriation
by The Canadian Press
Last Updated Feb 8, 2021 at 1:44 pm EDT
FREDERICTON
New Brunswick’s Acadian Society is paying tribute to Jackie Vautour as a symbol of the francophone minority’s resistance to unjust expropriation of their lands.
The 92-year-old Vautour died on Sunday after being hospitalized with liver cancer and pneumonia.
He was known for battling against the federal expropriation of land from Acadian families to create Kouchibouguac National Park in the late 1960s.
Alexandre Cedric Doucet, president of the Acadian Society, said in an interview today that Vautour never gave up on his battle to remain on his family’s land, and he became a symbol that inspired the generations that followed.
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Acadian group in N.B. praises life of Jackie Vautour, who resisted expropriation
Jackie Vautour stands outside court during a case involving clam digging, in Moncton, N.B. on April 12, 2010. New Brunswick s Acadian Society is paying tribute to Jackie Vautour as a symbol of the resistance of the francophone minority to acts of unjust expropriation. The 92-year-old Vautour died on Sunday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Andrew Vaughan February 08, 2021 - 1:02 PM
FREDERICTON - An Acadian man who fought to remain in his home on New Brunswick s eastern shore is being recalled as a symbol of the francophone minority s resistance to unjust expropriation of their lands.