Author: Mahaffie Jr., Charles D.,
Title: A Land of Discord Always: Acadia from its beginnings to the expulsion of its people 1604-1755.
Description: Camden, MAINE, Down East Books, (1995). 1ST Printing. VG Hardback in VG DJ. includes publisher press release. French Acadian setttlers of present day Nova Scotia. Thsir stubborn nonconformity an. neutality infuriated European powers resulting in Britain's expulsion of the Acadians from their homes, a notorious injustice memorialized in Longfellow's epic poem "Evangeline". Many thousands of Acadians were torn from their homes and homeland, their farms and villages destroyed. today over a million of their French-speaking descendants in Maine, Canada, and Louisiana are actively recovering their heritage.

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