Word: scotian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their roots are romantic enough. The Cajuns' Acadian (Nova Scotian) ancestors founded a colony on Canada's Bay of Fundy in 1604, and by 1755 had transformed the wilderness into a bucolic countryside. Then came a scheming English Governor who hated the French. In an act of genocide that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow later made a cause célèbre with his poem Evangeline, the British jammed thousands of Acadians onto prison ships and scattered them throughout the Old and New Worlds...
Later, Lise meets an ancient Nova Scotian lady who is perhaps the ultimate exponent of Women's Lib. "The male sex is getting out of hand," she says. "Perfume, jewellery, hair down to their shoulders, and I'm not talking about the ones who were born like that. If God had intended them to be as good as us he wouldn't have made them different from us to the naked eye. If we don't look lively, they will be taking over the homes and the children...