4 ' JOHN HEABl'l 



at Chipody, LoiTisbiirg aud elsewhere, and it is computed that the number affected by 

 the edict of expulsion amounted to about 6,000. Of these a good many ultimately returned. 

 There must certainly have been a pretty fair nucleus of families to yield 108,005, the 

 French (generally Acadian) population of the maritime provinces according to the last 

 census. It has been noted that the names of many French-speaking families living there 

 to-day are those of the Acadiaus of the iVth century. There were some intermarriages 

 with Scotch aud Irish, and also with Indians. St. Castiu married the daughter of an 

 Abenakis chief; d'Entremont married one of St. Castin's half-breed daughters ; the mother 

 of Latour's daughter Jeanne was a woman of the Amalekite tribe ; and several other such 

 marriages or unions are on record. (Eameau: Une Colonie féodale, p. 195.) 



Acadian Characteristics. 



La Mothe-Cadillac, writing in 1690 of the resources of Acadia, describes the cattle and 

 horses as modified by the influence of climate, fodder and treatment. The third generation 

 of colonists was then mature, and it is natural to suppose that their differentiation had also 

 begun. M. Rameau, who quotes Lamothe, says : — " The men also had experienced like 

 modification. The children of the French emigrants had become, in fact, Acadians, and now 

 formed a small distinct community with new customs of their own, and irnited by the 

 traditions and usages that the force of circumstances had imposed on them. They were 

 marked by profound attachment to their religious faith, which, being intimately associated 

 with all the habits of their lives, fostered a spirit of unity and harmony which enabled 

 them to live in peace so long without police courts and almost without laws." He adds, 

 however, that the disposition of a people who had little chance of cultivation was not 

 always tractable, the difficulties of their mode of life tending to embitter minds already 

 prone to the defects of the French character. He mentions among their faults levity, 

 improvidence, vanity — sometimes leading to good actions, but commonly intolerable to 

 others ; lack of subordination, unless when imposed by force, love of gossip and criticism, 

 with that jealousy which often accompanies excessive fondness for company. Thence arose 



Quebec, of singing the GuigiioUc on the evening of St. Sylvester's day, that is Kew Year's eve. As the words of 

 this ancient invocation may be new to some, I append one of the versions contained in tlie Chansons populaires du 

 Canada of ]\I. Ernest Gagnon : 



" Bonjour le maître et la maîtresse 

 Et tout le monde do la maison. 

 Pour le dernier jour de l'année 

 La Ignolé vous nous devez. 

 Si vous voulez rien nous donner 



Dites-nous-le, 

 On emmènera seulement 



La fille ainée. 

 On lui fera faire bonne chère. 

 On lui fera chauffer les pieds. 

 On vous demande seulement 



Une ch ignée, 

 De vingt à trente pieds de long 



Si vous voulez-e. 



La Ignolée, la Ignoloche, 



Mettez du lard dedans ma poche! 



Quand nous fum'.s au milieu du bois, 



Nous fum's à l'ombre ; 

 J'entendais chanter le coucou 



Et la coulombe. 

 Rossignolet du vert bocage 

 Rossignolet du bois joli. 

 Eh ! va-t-en dire à ma maîtres.se 

 Que je meurs pour ses beaux yeux. 

 Tout' fille qui n'a pas d'amant, 



Comment vit-elle? 

 Elle vit toujours en soupirant 



Et totijours veille." 



