1987 Reunion Click for Photos Newspaper article From: The Northridge Tribune August 26, 1987     In the above photo are all nine members of the Coady Family of Bras d’Or with their mother. Mrs. Frances Coady Sullivan, seated. From left to right are: John, Arthur, Doreen (Mrs. Bill Rybachuk); Joseph, Eulalia (Mrs. Nelson Whitehead).[…]

Early Hardships   As early as 1900 people settled in the Margaree’s then called Marguerite River. Times were hard for these new settlers in a foreign land. Even getting there was a very hard and tiresome task. They had to cross the ocean from the old land in small sailing vessel, the voyage often taking[…]

  THE MARGAREE IRISH PIONEER HISTORY by Natalie Coady   The Irish in the Margaree area all originated from Ireland. There were various reasons for their settlement in this new land. A few came during the Irish Rebellion of 1798 to escape imprisonment and other persecutions and many also came to escape the great potato[…]