. In fair Aroostook, where Acadia and Scandinavia's subtle touch turned a wilderness into a land of plenty; . rom the homeof the plant, and among the descendants of the banished Aca-dians, suggests that it may have come back with one of thosehomeless wanderers to the eastern scenes that he loved — or itmay have been transplanted from west to east by some followersof ha Salle or Tonty or some others of the devout French mis-sionary priests who traversedthe west and south and cheer-fullv gave their lives to estab-lish the cross among the Indi-ans. The Acadian settlementof the Madawaska region ha
. In fair Aroostook, where Acadia and Scandinavia's subtle touch turned a wilderness into a land of plenty; . rom the homeof the plant, and among the descendants of the banished Aca-dians, suggests that it may have come back with one of thosehomeless wanderers to the eastern scenes that he loved — or itmay have been transplanted from west to east by some followersof ha Salle or Tonty or some others of the devout French mis-sionary priests who traversedthe west and south and cheer-fullv gave their lives to estab-lish the cross among the Indi-ans. The Acadian settlementof the Madawaska region hadits origin in the famous andsorrowful removal of the NovaScotia Acadians from theirhomes by the English whoscattered them through otherparts of the English was done as a war measure,in 1755, to prevent the Aca-diansfrom assisting theFrenchand Indians who were then atwar with the English. Here isDr. Parkmans description ofthe Acadians of that time: The Acadians were a simpleand very ignorant peasantry,industrious and frugal, till evildays came to discourage them;livinof aloof from the world. HIlK THE GOOD OF HIS )\VS— MADAWASKA 52 IN FAIR AROOSTOOK. with little of that spirit of adventure which an easy access tothe vast fur-bearing interior had developed in their Canadian kindred, having few wants andthose of the rudest; fishing alittle and hunting in the win-ter, but chiefly cultivators ofthe soil. They made clothingof flax and wool of their ownraising, hats of similar materi-als, and shoes or moccasins ofmoose or seal skin. They hadcattle, sheep, hogs and horsesin abundance. For drink theymade cider or brewed sprucebeer. French officials describetheir dwellings as wretchedwooden boxes, without orna-ments or conveniences andscarcely supplied with themost necessary furniture. Twoor more families often occu-pied the same house; andtheir way of life, though simple and virtuous, was by no meansremarkable for cleanliness. Marriages were early and popula-tion g
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