"Evangeline" locale

Usage examples of acadia.

It was to the effect that an Abenaki Indian had just come over land from Acadia, with news that some of his tribe had captured an English woman near Portsmouth, who told them that a great fleet had sailed from Boston to attack Quebec.

Acadia and to Canada, because these tribes held the passes through the northern wilderness, and, so long as they were in the interest of France, covered the settlements on the St.

They never even attempted to retaliate them, though the settlements of Acadia offered a safe and easy revenge.

For nearly eighty years the forty thousand acres of Acadia provided a haven for all lovers of nature.

During the next three years this indefatigable, resourceful pioneer assisted in founding Acadia and exploring the Atlantic coast southward.

The unquiet Champlain left Acadia in the summer of 1607, the charter having been withdrawn by the king.

Le Caron, and a lay brother, Du Plessis, others were added, but there were not more than six in all for the missions extending from Acadia to where Champlain found Le Caron in 1615 in the vicinity of Lake Huron.

New France, from 1603 in Acadia to the early part of the eighteenth century in the Mississippi and St.

Again for a moment Acadia echoes of the Sorbonne and of Arcadian poesy.

Bay were competing for the traffic of the northern tribes, and the English of New England were seizing upon the fisheries of Acadia, and now and then making piratical descents upon its coast.

In the next century, some of the people of Acadia were torn from their homes by order of a British commander.

Perrot, former governor of Acadia, accuses both Meneval and the priest Petit of being in collusion with the English.

All Acadia was comprised in these various stations, more or less permanent, together with one or two small posts on the Gulf of St.

Inland Acadia was all forest, and vast tracts of it are a primeval forest still.

The Church, moreover, was less successful in excluding heresy from Acadia than from Canada.