Copy paste from private SAVOIE website. Text in this type {bracket} are my comments. Cynthia Daigle

Belleisle is a few miles east of Port Royal (today Annapolis Royal) in north-western Nova Scotia (east of Digby). Port Royal was one of the first European settlements in America.   Belleisle (named after Sieur de Bellisle, the owner of land in the area) is a farming area near Port Royal where our ancestor François Savoie, his son Germain and grandson Germain settled in the 1600s and 1700s.   Foundations of pre-deportation Acadian homes have been found in Belleisle and excavated by archaeologists in 1973.   One of the foundations is likely that of François and his son and later grandson.   A few hundred metres (yards) from the foundations is Belleisle Hall.   It was probably built in the late 1800s.   It served as a community hall for the local population.   Deb bought it earlier this year and she/we have yet to decide what it will become (a museum, a memorial, a repository for data and artifacts, an Acadian genealogical resource centre have been suggested among other options).   If you search the archives on this site {archives available only in private SAVOIE site}, you will learn more about Belle Isle Hall and Belleisle Marsh (which our ancestor cleared, dyked and farmed starting in the early 1640s).   I'll be glad to answer more questions.
Ghislain

Posted by Deborah Savoie Guilini with picture of Bellisle Hall

This is the place that we are renovating to set up a monument for our family. There will be various family reunions there and meeting   in 2004, some of them organized by the Savoie Association of which our site member Ken Breau is the vice president {not to be confused with SACHS, Savoie Acadian Cultural and Historical Society}.  
SACHS, the organization of which I as founding president and Ghilsain is founding vice president, is a separate organization that deals with promoting research and archeological studies on the land owned by our original Acadian ancestors, Francois and his son Germain. The Belle Isle hall is located on this land. By sponsoring SACHS you are contributing towards the renovations of this hall and our research projects.

{See Photo’s in this site for a picture of Belle Isle Hall. Also see Related Links for a link to the new SACHS website for more information.}