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Paradise stolen: two hundred and fifty years ago this September, the Acadians of Nova Scotia, builders of a free and peaceful society, were driven from their land at the point of British bayonets.
In the Acadian land, on the shores of the Basin of Minas, distant, secluded, still, the little village of Grand-Pre lay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched to the eastward, giving the village its name, and pasture to flocks without number.... Thus dwelt together in love these simple Acadian farmers--dwelt in the love of God and of man.
--From Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tired and dirty from working in the fields to bring in the harvest, 418 males, boys as young as 10 to elders in their eighth and ninth decades of life, assembled in the Catholic chapel in the village of Grand Pre, Nova Scotia. The gathering, held on September 5, ...
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