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At the beginning of 2010 the village of Tatamagouche prepared to celebrate the Tricentenary of its recorded settlement by French immigrants who, because they had come to the region of L’Acadie, or Acadia, have become known to us as the Acadians.
Three hundred years is a long time, but tragically the Acadians were given much less time to write their history in the New France that they had come to so hopefully. Forty five years later they were gone, forcefully expelled from the farms, lands and habitations that they had painstakingly wrested from the wilderness by toil, ingenuity and perseverance. But they had made their mark in history, albeit in a story heavily tinged with sadness and despair, and they never lost their love for the greater home that they had lost. Many returned eventually by circuitous ways and resettled, and remain an important presence in the region to this day. Ways of celebrating and saluting the French history of Tatamagouche became a priority for the village in 2010. |
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