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Discover powerful Acadian stories within a picturesque landscape. Successes and struggles are illuminated through a multimedia presentation and engaging displays, a splendid Victorian garden and a Memorial Church. This is Grand-Pré National Historic Site, monument to Acadian culture and deportation.
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Families from France first settled in Acadie in the 1630s. In the early 1680s, Pierre Melanson and Marguerite Mius d'Entremont and their children moved from Port-Royal to found Grand-Pré on the upland that overlooked the vast salt marsh or meadow from which the settlement took its name. Others followed and a vibrant Acadian community flourished alo...
Under both the French and the British, the residents of Les Mines exhibited a strong spirit of independence, made possible in part because of the distance separating them from the authorities at Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal. The area of Les Mineswas not immune to the struggle between Great Britain and France for supremacy in this part of North Americ...
Through this difficult period, most Acadians adhered to the policy of neutrality, which had been recognized by the Nova Scotia authorities in a qualified oath of allegiance sworn before Governor Philipps in 1729 and 1730. In 1755, on the eve of the Seven Year War, the acting governor and the Council of Nova Scotia decided to force the Acadians to t...
Grand-Pré is more strongly identified with the Deportation than any other site because of the detailed journal kept by Winslow in 1755, and because of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow chose it as the setting of his epic poem Evangeline: A Tale of Acadiepublished in 1847. Longfellow's poem became a rallying point for the Acadian people following its publi...
Grand-Pré National Historic Site of Canada is located at the former Acadian village of Grand-Pré, beside the upper Bay of Fundy, north of Wolfville, Nova Scotia. The site consists of a memorial park created to commemorate the deportation of the Acadians, who settled in the area between 1682 and 1755. The designation includes commemorative ...
- 2205 Grand Pré Road, Grand Pré, Nova Scotia
The original village of Grand Pré extended four kilometres along the ridge between present-day Wolfville and Hortonville. Grand-Pré is listed as a World Heritage Site and is the main component of two National Historic Sites of Canada.
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Enjoy outdoor interactive theatre portraying life in Grand-Pré before the expulsion. Stroll among the old French willow trees, the orchard, and the duck pond, and gaze over the rolling farmland. Time your visit to take in a host of events during Acadian Days in July.
