Amlamkuk/Memramcook
Nature is expressed in several or various ways
Artists
Michel Robichaud
Anna Knockwood
Memramcook
Memramcook: gold field like the golden stems of the Petit Prince.
Enchanting places : La butte à Pétard, L’anse des Cormier, Pointe à l’ours, La Hêtrière. La Montain, Ruisseau-aux renards, Pré-d’en-haut. There is also the hamlet of the Gautreau, Boudreau, Taylor, Belliveau and the one of Saint Joseph. Memramcook protected by the steeple of Lourdes in the morning mist.
Territory of the three rivers: Peticodiac, Memramcook, Chipoudie (well done).
Bathed by the Bay of Chipoudie, we find the tip of Memramcook, the place where the grain miller Thibodeau set up his milling, around 1700. Then from Port Royal in 1744, came Jacques Bonnevie known as Beaumont.
At the rocky tip of Beaumont, we can see a small Mi’kmaq chapel with a pinnacle dedicated to Saint Anne and an Amerindian cemetery.
And the relics of the Fort de La Galissonnière had, they say, a barrel hidden at the elbow of the Petitcodiac.
Memramcook existed before the deportations.
Then we talk about the caravan of the Acadian exiles of Massachusetts.
Break up, continuation and migration patterns.
The birthplace of the Acadian Renaissance expands.
1863: Saint Joseph College with the fathers of Saint Croix and the great founders, fathers Lafrance and Lefebvre.
Then the convent Notre-Dame of Sacred Heart and the small sisters of the Saint Family.
There was the first national convention of 1881: the celebration of august 15th and the Ave Maris Stella Place of ferment of pioneers: Pascal Poirier, Pierre Amand Landry...
At one time we dream about the gold mines and oil wells.
While the Lefebvre monument jigs to Arthur Le Blanc’s fiddle.
And receive the president of the French republic.
The field undulates according to the small fruits and the orchards in bloom.
Apple ciders, blueberries, cherries, raspberries, plums to drink to life.
And to the great Roméo who modestly brought us closer to the throne.
The dykes and the aboiteaux wake up in those magical marshes.
To drink at the source of Marianne of this gorgeous valley.
Michel Robichaud
Caraquet, N.B.
Michel Robichaud, a native of Caraquet, is a well-known artist in the region. In the Acadian Peninsula, there are several sculptures created by this artist, including La Famille acadienne, created in 1979 as part of the 375th anniversary of the founding of Acadia and permanently installed in front of the Bibliothèque publique Mgr-Paquet at Caraquet City Hall; a public sculpture in tribute to the lost fishermen created in 1977 and installed in Bas-Caraquet; the millennium sculpture Une île, une légende, unveiled in 2001 as part of the Atlantic Visual Arts Festival; and the sculpture Instruments de musique, at the Grande Maison in Caraquet. In recent years, he has participated in an artist residency at the Association Saint-Henri de France as well as in various solo and group exhibitions.
Michel Robichaud is a talented self-taught artist who demonstrates great originality and variety in his artistic production. His art is a constant intellectual research, a constantly renewed process in which he constantly tries to discover the possibilities of artistic expression.
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In the exhibition Irreducible Roots, the artist is associated with the name "Memramcook".
Anna Knockwood
First Nation
Fort Folly, N.B.
Anna Knockwood is an artist from Fort Folly First Nation in New Brunswick.
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Her art consists of creating baskets from black ash wood. She learned this particular technique from her family when she was a child. The beauty of Anna Knockwood's art is that through it, she keeps alive a tradition and unique method of her community. Each of her baskets is unique and reflects patterns and designs from her Mi'kmaq culture. However, there is an eminently personal and artistic touch to her work. Anna Knockwood has been creating these baskets for a long time and her work can be found in many cities in the United States and New Brunswick.
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In the exhibition Irreducible Roots, the artist is associated with the name "Memramcook".