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ET IKE the Green Isle of Erin, the Land of ( 1 Evangeline is the "home of the lost cause" and the scene of a real love romance which ; ' for self-sacrifice, heroism and devotion, as told in Longfellow's famous poem, ranks amongst the greatest love stories in world literature, and is ac counted the most tragical and moving of them all. The tramp of soldiers through Nova Scotia has completed a cycle of years and brought an awaken ing there which for a conservative country is por tentious indeed. War's demands industrially have made her realize that she has been sleeping. Her Hj I cities and seaports fairly hum now and her mer chants have unfamiliar prosperity. Amid her "hundred miles of apple blossoms" arc pitched the tents 6f khaki-clad .men answering llic call of their country and only resting within her gates until ordered "over seas." Government pay "checks, war orders, bright crop prospects and j a demand for her products have made the Nova Scotians happy. ' Realizing that her sons and daughters are ' scattered over Canada and the United States, hav I mS given their brain and brawn to the development ' of both, Nova Scotia has inaugurated a "letter 1 writing week," in which those who have stayed at j home are writing to those who have migrated, ask I ing them to return and visit the scenes of years gone by. j NOVA SCOTIAN NAMES I HIGH IN ALL AMERICA For generations Nova Scotia's sons have sought fortunes anywhere but at home. On both sides of the forty-ninth parallel those who have come from Hl Acadia have written their names high. So high in fact that those who stayed at home have t asked: "What might we not have had if we had kept the brains and energy that have gone from V Boards of trade in every Nova Scotian city and town are now uniting to develop the riches un- questionably there and to give the coming genera- r Hj , tions an opportunity to express themselves in deeds , at home rather than elsewhere. Industries long semi-dormant are spurred to capacity by the dc j mands of war. New ones have been started. Cam ' paigns are in swing to educate the farmers to use j their land to the best advantage, to raise sheep, to J do things others are doing elsewhere in fact, to j progress. What bonnic Scotland's plains and hills, lakes fl and fells, battle fields and shrines were, and are yet, to England's myraid hosts of nature-lovers and ' tourists, such, for three-quarters of a century, has been the "Land of Evangeline," in Nova Scotia, to tens, of thousands of tourists from the United - - " " J rJk&mk t . , i . 1 Scotia S$sSS&a&fe m L iu f m-mH'V I has many 1 I tmmk fTvfe H J M soldiers J hm If I- r 1 States and to many from other foreign countries. In summer made golden with sunshine and magical with the loveliest beauties of Nature, the H' Land of Evangeline teems with absorbing historic .romance. Small as its area is, it contains much of the magical, mystical beauty of Nature so much romance of legend, tradition, heroism, faith and ! QUAINT GRAND PRE CENTERS ROMANCE LAND The Land of Evangeline is suffused with' the imaginative beauty which the fancy weaves around moss-grown, fortresses and ancient indecipherable tombstones with the pathetic, wistful appeal to ' the heart which is awakened by relics that recall "Far-off, old, unliappy things ' And battles long ago." B. The magic of earth, the romance of pioneer j life in the "forest primeval," of massacre, of war , fare, of heroism, of self-sacrifice and devotion, and H' I the poetry of the tragical love of a winsome Acadian maiden these have transmitted the Land of Evangeline into a centre of compelling interest to nature-lovers, students of history, archaeology and 1 literature, and to holiday seekers and tourists in general. They have made a perennial shrine of H- the quaint village of Grand , Pre, which was the Hl home of Evangeline, and its picturesque relics and j environs, Evangeline's well, the site of the forge of 1 Basil, the blacksmith, the house of Father Felician, the old willows (a group still standing), the site H where stood the house in which "Boy Blue" was wedded on the night Coylon de Villiers massacred the British in the village of Melancon, 174-7, the Basin of Mines and blue-crested Blomidon, stand ing stark, sher and silent like a mighty sentinel of this real land of romance. Ports aE-' "Ji busy up m iwMmmm lplf I apple- I M imm'm, blossoms m - Wft d MOBIL.E ; I I KK Pleasant PPgPiiS! FARMS Then there a-re the pleasant meadow and village' XMMmm GREET I o Grand Pre, the town of WolfviUe, which is the 0 BIK I -rui( 1 railway centre for American tourists visiting the WS E J Jlomc of Evangeline and its environs, the Annapolis XiXWW (arjLg V J EYE Valley, the towns of Annapolis Royal and Digby, jMy SSszo )otn picturesque and romantic, and the sequestered piaftv-vf?"'it "wP0 T s. French Acadian settlement of Clare, where the A Kffh, yy sk ancient Norman customs and manners of dress still (h SaBSb. r"-x . v Vtf'' k,$&X.'-'. .'V-? obtain. All these places arc genuine shrines of llraW5 rf- MW--i& thousands of tourists. , -.tew Thc iUustrations to this ort!cic show' in e - . ' t, a I ,. . the natural bcaujiy of Grand Pre, the home J' ! Hf Evangeline. Thc Grand Pre Railway 'station Is ' IB tlircc miles cast of Wolfville, an oducational and I J (K summer resort centre on thc line of the Dominion f wM Atlantic Railway. The village of Grand Pre in , 1 I 'jS the Acadian days lay in thc fertile meadow. The ' original landscape remains practically unchanged. vMt The older portions of the ancient dykes which re- "ffil claimed the- salt marshes from the sea can still-be 4 seen. A visitor can still look upon thc breeze- f yM ruffled waters of the Basin of Minas and, perhaps, mlM': watel) white winged boats glide over them with thc .flHj grace of a gull in the air. He can still behold jjK Cape Blomidon looming in thc distance, dark, high crested An ! sclent, if tlie day is bright; forboding or ominous Jf tlie da' is clouded. JK In one jart of the meadow stand what remains ' fjM of thc willows planted there by the, original Acadians. Also to be seen is the well which some j I'.B. are pleased, through poetic sentiment, ( to name " 'it( fl "Evangeline's Well, but which more likely was the i'fqW source of the general water supply for thc village. r - cB Only the reputed sites of thc forge of Basil, the blacksmith,' and of Father Felician are shown to fim. thc tourist. But he will be shown the real site of btMi the vijlagc of Melancon, where the French under a 'iuHj de Villcrs massacred a body of New England jj. 1 troops in the dead of winter, nine j'cars before the. a 4mR I expulsion of the Acadians. Portions of the church iU 1M1 of St. Charles, including the foundations of the J iSSl chimney and the fireplace built by thc soldiers who ?Vf Jfjfl were quartered in the church during the expulsion, r-, BwM were recently discovered., Thc lovely Evangeline v3 herself, of course, and her pretty docile "bell- . heifer" have long, long ago turned to dust. For 'f her sad stor' and her tragic search for her lover, one must turn to Longfellow's celebrated poem, .. V A ''V'-w but the Land of Evangeline is by itself a little r A li world of wondrous enchantment. . l j