. In fair Aroostook, where Acadia and Scandinavia's subtle touch turned a wilderness into a land of plenty; . r, who mostly have settled to the north of Madawaskatownship. One township on the north of Eagle Lake they havecolonized so exclusively that it has received the name NewCanada. They are of a t3pe quite distinct from the Acadians,and by the initiated are readily distinguished from the people ofEvangeline, by their names as nutch as by their black eyes andhair. The French population of the Madawaska territory,which comprises six towns and ten plantations besides severalunorganized townsh
. In fair Aroostook, where Acadia and Scandinavia's subtle touch turned a wilderness into a land of plenty; . r, who mostly have settled to the north of Madawaskatownship. One township on the north of Eagle Lake they havecolonized so exclusively that it has received the name NewCanada. They are of a t3pe quite distinct from the Acadians,and by the initiated are readily distinguished from the people ofEvangeline, by their names as nutch as by their black eyes andhair. The French population of the Madawaska territory,which comprises six towns and ten plantations besides severalunorganized townships, is about 15,000, a number 6,000 inexcess of the Acadian population in Nova Scotia at the time ofits deportation and scattering in 1755. It is in the wagou trip from Van Buren to Fort Kent, such as1 made in the last days of last July, that one finds the truest andbest scenic expressions of Acadian home life. The road liesalong the river, with Madawaska as a half-way station. Withme on the trip was Mr. Howe, the photographer, and our vehiclewas a surrey driven by the Van Buren livery-stable proprietor. ST. ISRINO CI M I 1 58 IN FAIR AROOSTOOK, ■I liiiuself, M(jiisieur Marcel Langlais, Acadian, who tended thehorses and acted as our guide and interpreter. The roads were])erfect, tlie weather presented the divinest t^pe of the Aroostookniidsuminer. We crossed Violette brook in Van Buren at seven oclock in the morning ; thenon past the convent and church and St. Brunocollege — Van Buren was before its old Acadianname was usurped by the nameof an American president —and soon we had left the half-Americanized community andwere spinning along the longvillage street that extendsforty-five miles to Fort places as at lower and up-per Grand Isle, at St. Davidand Madawaska, and at lowerand upper Frenchville the houses would draw more closelytogether toward the red-roofed church, with spire and cross, thatstood by the wayside, with near it a merchandis
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