Beau Bassin House (La Maison Beau Bassin)

Beaubassin, the village the house is named for, stood on the Isthmus of Chignecto in what is now Nova Scotia, beside a large saltwater marsh. It was established in the 1670s, became a parish in 1686 and had about 2,800 people by 1750, nearly half of them refugees from the mainland. In May 1750, as Major Charles Lawrence arrived with about 800 troops, the French and their allies burned the town, destroying 45 buildings. The Acadians fled across the Missaguash River. Parks Canada acquired much of the site in 2004, and it became a National Historic Site in 2005.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Vermilionville — steps away
  A living-history village of about 23 acres on Bayou Vermilion in Lafayette, opened in 1990 to interpret the Native peoples, Acadians, Creoles and people of African descent of the Attakapas region.
• Cypress Island Preserve at Lake Martin — 5.7 mi
  Nearly 10,000 acres of bottomland hardwood and cypress-tupelo swamp at the south end of Lake Martin, owned by The Nature Conservancy, with a boardwalk and a rookery of egrets, spoonbills and alligators.
• Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site — 12 mi
  A bayou-side state site on former Attakapas hunting ground, with a raised Creole cottage of about 1815, a reproduction 1800 farmstead and its slave quarters, and the story behind Longfellow's Evangeline.
• St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church — 12 mi
  The Mother Church of the Acadians, founded in 1765 on St. Martin Square in St. Martinville, with a late 1870s Lourdes grotto and, a block away, the Evangeline Oak on Bayou Teche.

More markers nearby

• School House (L'école) — steps away
• Mouton Kitchen (La Cuisine de Maison Mouton) — steps away
• Acadian House (Maison Acadienne) — steps away
• Trappers Cabin & Boat Shed — steps away