We went to the Grande-Pre National Historic Site -site of the church and cemetary of the 17th-18th century Acadian Village. It commemorates the Acadians of the Minas Basin and their deportation. There is a great interpretive center, beautiful gardens, an old church (which was never ordained and is used as a museum) with a beautiful stained glass window depicting the deportation scene, a blacksmith shop, and kitchen garden. There is a large cross made from the foundations of some of the old homes that were evacuated. There is a bust of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who wrote a poem of Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie. She is adopted as the symbol of the Acadians.
We drove the Fundy shoreline from Grande-Pre to Truro. The tide was going out and the water looked like dark hot chocolate. There were huge tracts of corn and large dairy farms and chicken farms.
We stayed at Gateway Parklands. a Passport America park in Amherst (on the NS/NB border.)
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