> Devised in 1998 following a trip to Nova Scotia to attend the Halifax International Scottish Country Dance Workshop.
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> Acadia was a French colony in northeastern North America. Originally settled by the French in the early
> 1700s, the land was later ceded to England. Thousands of Acadians were deported, scattering them
> throughout the New World. Many of the French settlers found their way back to Nova Scotia, settling
> largely in the Annapolis Valley on the shores of the Bay of Fundy. My husband’s ancestors, who emigrated
> from France in the early 1700s to what is now Quebec Province, were Acadians.