AN ACADIAN VILLAGE 



numerous names of places. The name has also 

 been derived from the Indian Aquoddie, mean- 

 ing the fish called a pollock. 



The deportation of the Acadians from Nova 

 Scotia in 1755 is well known, and is familiar 

 to all from Longfellow's poem of Evangeline. 

 About a hundred years later, namely in 1857, 

 Ferman Boudrot, an Acadian from the Magda- 

 len Islands, sought to establish a home at Es- 

 quimaux Point on the southern Labrador coast, 

 and his example was so contagious that in 1861, 

 when Hind visited the place, there were already 

 forty Acadian families settled there. Now there 

 is a little village of some one hundred and 

 twenty houses, a substantial church with a 

 steeple and a priests' house. 



That La Pointe aux Esquima uxde La Cote 

 du Nord is peopled by those of French descent is 

 obvious, for, as Thomas Hood used to say, even 

 the little children speak French such as it 

 is a patois which always suggested to me that 

 the language of Paris had been chewed and 

 partially swallowed. However, if my knowledge 

 of the French language had been greater, I 

 should doubtless have recognized traces of the 

 ancient dialects of the parts of France from 



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