Longfellow's Evangeline and the Cult of Acadia.

From: Contemporary Review | Date: February 1, 2002| Author: Evans, James Allan | Copyright information

IT was October and the tourist season in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia was almost past, but it was still a glorious sunny day when I reached Grand Pre. The trees were clothed in a last display of brilliant colour before they yielded to the onset of winter. The little shop at the Grand Pre site was having an end-of-summer sale. Nowadays visitors enter it from the parking lot, but once upon a time, when Canadians still had good rail service, a train dropped tourists off at a f...

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