V 
GRAND PRfi 
WAS it an accident, or the kindly- 
guidance of the Spirit of Romance 
that led us to enter Grand Pre on 
the fifth of September, the very date 
of the expulsion of the Acadians ? 
Grand Pre lies on a hillside overlooking the 
Cornwallis Valley, but on the opposite side of 
the valley from North Mountain and the 
Look Off. From it one sees Canning and 
Kentville in the distance, where they lie in 
their meadows between it and North Mountain. 
It is a small and quiet village as one sees it 
to-day, its houses still stretching down one 
long street, as was probably the fashion of 
times gone by, when Grand Pre was the home 
of the Acadians and the thatched roofs of the 
farmhouses straggled from the Grand Pre of 
to-day to Horton's Landing on Minas' shore, 
a mile or more away. 
The houses now are less picturesque than 
the Acadian homes, for their roofs are not 
thatched, and they do not depart often enough 
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