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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