The Exile of the Acadians - The People of Longfellow S Evangeline #233765

The story carries us back to the long ago, when from the frozen sea to the tropical gulf, this vast country was a nearly unknown wilderness, its monotony being undisturbed save by a few English colonies on the Atlantic shore of what is now the United States, and like settlements by French in Canada, each claiming by assumed right that which belonged to neither, and each fiercely jealous of the acquirements of the other.