The Land of Evangeline: The Authentic Story of Her Country and Her People / With Evangeline by H. W. Longfellow

A combined local history and tourist guide recounts Acadian settlement around the Minas Basin, describing dyked marshes, orchards, rivers, and village life while tracing community growth up to the deportation when houses, barns, and mills were destroyed and inhabitants sent into exile. It details Grand-Pré’s church land, burying ground, rows of willows, surviving cellars, and the establishment of a memorial park with a bronze figure commemorating the event. Illustrated plates and a map accompany narrative chapters that interweave familial names, landholding and dyke construction, sites associated with the exile, and practical guidance for visitors to the region.