This house represents the home of an Acadian farmer originally from Memramcook, who lived in the village of La Montain. Memramcook was settled by Acadians as early as the first half of the 18th century. After the Great Upheaval, Acadians continued to live in the area, and in 1781, Bishop Briand of Québec canonically erected the parish of Memramcook.

In the 19th century, Memramcook became a fertile and prosperous region, thanks to its agriculture. As in other Acadian regions, farmers used the marshes and built aboiteaux on the Memramcook and Petitcodiac rivers. Between 1830 and 1900, there were also many craftsmen and wood mills.

The Léger family, headed by Gabriel, built this home in 1836, not far from a chapel built around 1780 and destroyed by fire at La Montain. Gabriel Léger built his house on land belonging to his father, which he acquired in 1838. His father, Charles Léger, who had lived most of his life in Bouctouche, returned to his son’s home on April 5, and died there on April 7, two days after his arrival.

When Gabriel died in 1880, his eldest son Alphée inherited the house. Alphée married Adélaïde LeBlanc in 1864, and the couple had only daughters. One of them, Marie-Angèle, inherited her father’s property, and so the house passed from the Légers to the LeBlancs. Marie-Angèle married Hyppolite LeBlanc in 1890. The last family to live in the house was Antoine LeBlanc, son of Hyppolite and Marie-Angèle Léger.

• Symmetry of the openings, the two fireplaces and the façade with its central door and two side windows
• Square on vertical half-timbering
• Division of interior space by partitions
• Plaster-coated interior walls between exposed structural beams
• Central staircase
• Brimbale well near the house