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for they were numerous and active. Antoine Landry was one of the inhabitants of Mines who in 1744 refused to give supplies to DuVivier who was then about to besiege Annapolis. Pierre Landry was one of the Piziquid deputies who went to visit Governor Cornwallis at Halifax on his arrival there in 1749. There were forty-four families of the name of Landry among those deported from Mines by Winslow in 1755, a fact which shows a very rapid increase since the census of 1671, eighty-four years before. But even this did not exhaust the number of the Landrys of that time for there were twelve families of that name in 1752 at Beausejour who were refugees from other parts of Acadia, and there were several families of the name at Port Royal.

When the Loyalists came in 1783 there were many French Acadians residing on the St. John river, amongst others Amant Landry, who had a wife and four children. There are now about five hundred families of the name in the Maritime Provinces, the larger number of them being in the counties of Gloucester and Westmorland. In the former county there are 161 families; in the latter 131. There are 36 families of Landrys in Kent, 30 in Madawaska, 12 in Northumberland and 9 in Restigouche. There are about 100 families in Nova Scotia, most of them in Richmond Co. Amand Landry, a resident of Westmorland, was one of the first Acadians to be elected to the Legislature of this province, and he occupied a seat in the House of Assembly for a great many years. His son, Pierre A. Landry, was the first Acadian to become a member of the Provincial government and the first to become a judge of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick.

The name of the LeBlanc is one of the most widely diffused of any in this modern Acadia. There are upwards of thirteen hundred families of that name in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, four-fifths of whom live in