HISTORY OF NOVA SCOTIA. 
tered many pleasant thoughts and happy memories, 
God’s blessing had rewarded the hand of the diligent. 
The barns were bursting with the freshly-gathered 
harvest, and the orchards were colouring with crimson 
and gold. A cloud of sadness, deeper and darker 
than evening shadows, now brooded over every 
hearthstone and gloomed every heart. Then imagine 
you see those poor people, men, women, and children, 
with funereal step and mien, trending their way to 
the vessels which would soon bear them to the land 
ofexile. And now, when all are gone, the smoking 
ruins of houses and barns completes the picture of 
desolation 
The total number of Acadians sent from Canard and Grand 
Pre is given at 1923; 255 dwellings and 276 barıs were burnt. 
The cattle and horses were left to run wild. In the following 
year a party of Germans from Lunenburg came across the country 
through the woods, and drove away about 170 head of cattle and 
a number of horses. Many of the cattle and all the horses died 
on the way to Lunenburg, 
The work of expulsion was less successful in other parts of 
the country. At Annapolis, when the Acadians saw the vessels 
enter the Basin, they fied to the woods. Some were brought 
back ; others eluded pursuit. The prisoners on board one of the 
transports from Annapolis took possession of the vessel, and sail- 
ing into St. John’s Harbour escaped, 
The worst scenes were at Chignecto. Some of the men 
Hed to the woods, leaving the women and children behind; others, 
joined by the Indians, turned upon the soldiers, some of whom 
they killed. Over 450 houses were burnt. 
It is computel that at least 3000 Acadians 
were banished from Nova Scotia, They were scattered, 
a few hundreds in a place, from Massachusetts to 
North Carolina. They were set down nearly desti- 
tute at the approach of winter among strangers, from 
whom they differed in language, customs, and religion. 
In some cases families were hroken up, and the chil-