The deaths of two New Brunswick fishermen on the first day of the lobster season are evoking powerful memories of past tragedies on the water for a singer who lives on the Acadian peninsula.
Eugene Beaudin, 58, and his great-nephew, Normand Beaudin, 33, fell off their fishing boat on Saturday and died in the water off Miscou Island, N.B., which juts into the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
After learning of their deaths, Sandra Le Couteur, a recording artist from Lamèque Island, N.B., just south of Miscou, posted a haunting, French ballad she recorded in 2020 about the loss of three other New Brunswick fishermen — an uncle and two nephews — in 1988. Their bodies, she said, are buried in the cemetery by the lighthouse on Miscou Island….