Along the byways of the Pisiquid River,where the salt water merges with fresh water at high tide, was a beautiful river valley. Flowing down into the meadows were small streams, vast stretches of salt marsh. Feeling well protected in the valley, the descendents of the settlers at Port Royal who were seeking for good farmland, decided to stay. The settlers established the parish of Assumption in 1698 on the east side of Pisiquid near Windsor and the parish of Sainte-Famille in 1722 on the west bank of Pisiquid. The parish church was built in the village of Babin, on a hill overlooking the lower river ford on the trail to Grande Pre. The settlement prospers and grows with family names such as Forest, Landry, Babin, Breaux, Thibodeau, Vincent & Trahan. Then, suddenly all is swept away as the Acadians are deported, their villages burned and abandoned.

In the summer of 1996, a developer in Falmouth,Nova Scotia discovered what was later determined to be the burial ground of an Acadian settlement. This site has been identified as the cemetery of La Paroisse de Sainte-Famille, a Catholic parish founded by the Acadians of Pisiquid. Through the years the graveyard was neglected and forgotten after the Deportation of the Acadians in 1755. There are an estimated 300 graves at the site that belong to our Acadian ancestors. The first settlers of this valley must not be forgotten.