L'Acadie...ahh!

One of the reasons for crossing the country was to see the land of Tina's ancesters, the Acadians. Here is Grand Pre with it's statue of Evangeline the heroine of Longfellow's romatic poem of the plight of the deported Acadians.

It was at this site that the Gaudets, along with the other french settlers of the area were deported in the "Grand Derangement" of 1755. At this point in time the Acadians felt to be their own people (they swore allegience neither to France nor to the ruling British colonizers) and were therefore a threat as Britain was in a colonial war with France.

Tina found it to be a moving experience to visit this historical site of her family's past and somehow found that going to Nova Scotia was oddly like a homecoming.