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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...
...tournament victory was satisfying, because Harvard had had a rough pre-season schedule, winning only three of seven games. But Gallagher's performance was the real jewel of the Nova Scotian weekend...
...purebred" or "standardbred." Racing harness horses, pacers or trotters are standardbreds, no matter how much thoroughbred blood may have been used in that breed's creation. All dogs which are not cross-breds or mongrels, but members of established recognized breeds, are purebred. So if . . . the Nova Scotian duck tollers are thoroughbreds, they can only be horses, not dogs, however cunning their disguise...
...Corps of Signals stationed at Aklavik, built the transmitter with odds & ends from a ham set, a few parts scrounged from Army discards and about $100 worth of equipment that he bought himself. He talked Sergeant Jack Willis into being the station's announcer because Willis, a Nova Scotian, could pronounce Eskimo names like "Plluluk" (pronounced Pell-oo-look) without a bobble. Last winter they set up their equipment in the second floor of Aklavik's Signals Station, and by December they were broadcasting with 30-watt power on 1,230 kilocycles. They did so well that last...