Route 432 Main Brook/Croque /St. Julien’s/Conche French Shore
Fishermen left behind cannons, shipwrecks and haunting wooden crosses. Housed in a former Grenfell nursing station in Conche, the French Shore Interpretation Centre highlights authentic French sites scattered throughout the French Shore communities of Conche, Croque and Grandois/St. Julien’s. In Croque, the Waterfront Properties represent the traditional architecture of the early 20th-century inshore fishery. A simple French and English naval graveyard dating from the 1700s overlooks the waterfront. A French naval ship returned each year to maintain the cemetery until the 1970s. In Croque, the Epine Cadoret Heritage Site features a short boardwalk trail leading to carvings left by 19th-century French sailors. In St. Julien’s, the altar of a church, partly carved by a gentleman with a pocket knife in early 1900s, has been restored and opened to the public.
