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Published on: 12/3/2001
Last Visited: 12/3/2001
Danielle LeBlanc, communications director for CMA 2004, acted as tour guide.There are lots of LeBlancs in Nova Scotia, she said.Same goes for Southwest Louisiana, I replied.
As we left the city, we entered another world, one of vast and beautiful woodlands and rolling hills, pristine waters and small communities dotted along the coast where fishing is the primary industry.It's a quiet place with no fast-food restaurants or chain stores or motels.
From Halifax we headed toward the east coast to Grand Pre, a national historic site that's twinned with the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville, La.
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It memorializes Acadian family names on a prominently displayed plaque: Benoit, Comeau, Cormier, Gaudet, Landry, LeBlanc, LeJeune, Arsenault (Arceneaux), Thibodeau and many others.It also has original records kept by the British officer in charge of the deportation.
We continued our travels along the Evangeline Trail, past the Bay of Fundy, noted for having the world's highest tides, to Port Royal in the Annapolis Valley where the French first settled in 1605.The Port Royal Habitation, a reconstruction of a small French compound from that time, shows in detail how those early settlers lived.
We then stopped at the Annapolis Royal Historic Gardens, which had an impressive rose collection and many other beautiful flowers in bloom.
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