Grand-Pré
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How it came to be
Grand-Pré is tidal marshland on the Minas Basin in Nova Scotia. In the later 17th century Acadians, settlers of French origin, began to farm here, starting with the family of Pierre Melanson from Port-Royal. With dykes and aboiteaux they turned the marsh into pasture and fields, and the village became known as the breadbasket of Acadia.
In 1755 the British began the deportation of the Acadians. Lieutenant Colonel John Winslow arrived with troops on 19 August and set up headquarters in the church, and on 5 September the men were ordered into it and told that their land was forfeit and they would be deported. More than 6,000 Acadians were removed from the Bay of Fundy region in the first year, and about 12,000 in all by 1763. The land later passed to settlers from New England known as the Planters.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem Evangeline, published in 1847, brought Grand-Pré back to wide notice. In 1907 John Frederic Herbin, whose mother was Acadian, bought the land thought to be the church site, and a statue of Evangeline followed in 1920 and a memorial church from 1922. The marshland and memorials were inscribed in 2012 as the Landscape of Grand Pré.
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