acadians

When war breaks out between Britain and France, the Acadians are caught in the middle.

A young Acadian learns the reasons behind his family's ouster from his birthplace and their struggles before finding a new home in Louisiana.

Chronicles the history of the French Acadians, the French-speaking Catholic inhabitants of eighteenth-century Nova Scotia, and their expulsion by the colonial governments of Nova Scotia and Massachusetts, which lasted from 1755 to 1763.

Presents the complete text of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's romantic poem "Evangeline," and includes an additional selection of works.

Retells in prose Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem about a young woman's search for her lover, Gabriel, after the Acadian exile from Canada.