Monday, July 03, 2023
Et in Acadia ego
Where in the world? We've slipped away for a holiday on the Acadian Peninsula, the northeast corner of the Canadian maritime province of New Brunswick - one of the places the French farming communities originally from Poitou resettled after being evicted from Nova Scotia by the British Crown in 1755. We're outside a town called Tracadie, the name (and of course more) taken from the Mi'kma'ki for a "good place to camp" - but back in Nova Scotia. Now there are Tracadies on Prince Edward Island and here - still on Mi'kma'ki land. (If you see a woman peering at a candle, we're the candle.) It's drivable (though decidedly not a short drive) from New York, a true getaway.