Acadian fishing-grounds, and we hear at one time of a 

 hundred of their vessels thus engaged. They often 

 landed and traded with the Indians along the coast. 

 Meneval, the governor, complained bitterly of their arro- 

 gance. Sometimes, it is said, they pretended to be for- 

 eign pirates, and plundered vessels and settlements, 

 while the aggrieved parties could get no redress at Bos- 

 ton. They also carried on a regular trade at Port Royal 

 and Les Mines or Grand Pre, where many of the in- 

 habitants regarded them with a degree of favor which 

 gave great umbrage to the military authorities, who, 

 nevertheless, are themselves accused of seeking their 

 own profit by dealings with the heretics. The settlers 

 caught from the ''Bostonnais" what their governor 

 stigmatizes as English and parliamentary ideas, the 

 chief effect of which was to make them restive under his 

 rule. The Church, moreover, was less successful in ex- 

 cluding heresy from Acadia than from Canada. A num- 

 ber of Huguenots established themselves at Port Eoyal, 

 and formed sympathetic relations with the Boston Puri- 

 tans. The bishop at Quebec was much alarmed. ''This 

 is dangerous," he writes; ''I pray your Majesty to put 

 an end to these disorders." 



"Men know little of the consequences of their actions. 

 It ivas the Stuart policy of religious intolerance at home 

 and of allowing colonies as safety valves for dissent ivhich 

 laid the sure foundation of the future United States/' 



— Cambridge Modern History. 



After the Peace of Utrecht 



Francis Parkman 

 "Along the borders of the sea an adverse power was 

 strengthening with slow but steadfast growth. By name, 

 local position and character, one community stands forth 

 as the conspicuous representative of this antagonism — 

 Liberty and Absolutism, Netv England and New France.'' 



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