ku # 481 ~ a french lesson
Saturday, September 1, 2007 at 10:14AM 
Autumn is on the way • click to embiggenAs many of you know, I live in a place called Au Sable Forks which is at the confluence of the East and the West Branch of the Au Sable rivers where they form the Au Sable river which continues on - through Au Sable Chasm - to Lake Champlain.
That's a lot of Au Sables and, in fact, there is a lot of 'sable' (Fr. sand) here about. Many of the early settlers 'round here were French Canadians who were drawn to the area by the logging industry. Many stayed and the village is filled with many families with French surnames, although, truth be told, none bear any resemblance whatsoever to the modern day so called cheese-eating, wine- swilling, surrender monkeys that you hear so much about (let's hear it for freedom fries).
In any event, our area comes by the name Au Sable (fr. with sand) honestly.
Reader Comments (4)
Surrender monkies? When did they surrender? Remember the Resistance. Who bailed the Colonists out when they were being thrashed by the Brits? Where do these epithets arise? "Cheese eating, wine-swilling" — just because they know how to eat well is no cause for jealousy — get educated.
Oh, and by the way — they invented photography, too.
They may have figured out how to get that goop to record an image (what's considered by most the "first image" is in the photo collection at UTAustin), but it was an Englishman who figured out how to make permanent the silver salt image process we still use today. Lets hear it for Sir John Herschel!
P'taker
We have sand like this too, here on the Miramichi. Soft as a baby's breath and as fine as talcum powder. Interesting though, don't you think, given all the hard volcanic rock in our areas, that there also exists this type of sand?
We have a great deal of clay in our riverbeds as well, in certain areas. Thick heavy stuff, red as a brick.
Tim