Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia

Deportation of Acadians order, read by Winslow in Grand-Pré church, painting by C. This article is about the Acadian people and culture The Acadians (Acadiens are the descendants of the seventeenth-century French W. Jefferys.

Grand-Pré is a Canadian rural community in Kings County, Nova Scotia. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page Kings County is a County in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia (ˌnəʊvəˈskəʊʃə ( Latin for New Scotland; Alba Nuadh Nouvelle-Écosse is a Canadian province located on Canada 's

Its French name translates to "Great Meadow" and the community lies at the eastern edge of the Annapolis Valley several kilometres east of the town of Wolfville on a peninsula jutting into the Minas Basin, framed by the Gaspereau and Cornwallis rivers. The Annapolis Valley is a valley in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. The Minas Basin is an inlet of the Bay of Fundy and a sub-basin of the Fundy Basin located in Nova Scotia, Canada.

History

Grand-Pré was founded by Acadians settlers who travelled east from Champlain's original settlement in Port-Royal Annapolis Royal in 1680. This article is about the Acadian people and culture The Acadians (Acadiens are the descendants of the seventeenth-century French Samuel de Champlain (c 1575 - 25 December 1635) "The Father of New France " was a French navigator geographer cartographer Annapolis Royal ( 2006 Population 444 is a Canadian town located in the western part of Annapolis County where they remained until their expulsion during the Great Upheaval, which began in 1755. The Great Upheaval, also known as the Great Expulsion, The Deportation, the Acadian Expulsion, or to the deportees Le Grand Dérangement, was Year 1755 ( MDCCLV) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow later immortalized the the tragedy of the expulsion with his epic poem Evangeline. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27 1807 &ndash March 24 1882 was an American educator and Poet whose works include " Paul Revere's Ride " Evangeline A Tale of Acadie is a Poem published in 1847 by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. For over three hundred years, the village of Grand Pre has provided a home for immigrant farmers and artisans.

Theflag of Acadia. The flag of Acadia was adopted on August 15, 1884, at the Second Acadian National Convention held in Miscouche Prince Edward Island by nearly 5 000

Sir Robert Laird Borden, the eighth Prime Minister of Canada, was born in Grand-Pré

In 1747, a French force defeated a larger British force here at the Battle of Grand-Pré

Today

Today, Grand-Pré is the home the Grand-Pré National Historic Site commemorating the Acadian people and their deportation. Not to be confused with his cousin Frederick Borden, Canadian Minister of Militia and Defence from 1896 to 1911 The Prime Minister of Canada ( French: Premier ministre du Canada) is the primary Minister of the Crown, chairman of the Cabinet, and thus The Battle of Grand Pré was a battle in King George's War that took place near present-day Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia in the winter of 1747 Grand-Pré National Historic Site is a park set aside to commemorate the Grand-Pré area of Nova Scotia as a center of Acadian settlement from 1682 to 1755 One of Nova Scotia's best known wineries, Domaine de Grand Pré, is located in the community. Grand-Pré is also Canada's first designated Historic Rural District.

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