"Acadian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... theirs till the final fall of Louisburgh; Prince Edward Island was their Island of St. Jean; Charlottetown was their Port Joli; and Frederickton, the present capital of New Brunswick, their St. Anne's; in the heart of Nova Scotia was that fair Acadian land, where the roll of Longfellow's noble hexameters may be heard in every wave that breaks upon the base of Cape Blomedon. In the northern counties of New Brunswick, from the Mirimichi to the Metapediac, they had their forts and farms, their churches and their festivals, ...
— Canada and the States • Edward William Watkin
... reads the decree of exile of the Acadian Neutrals, in the village church, 184 Painting ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, v. 13 • Various |
