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From: "Lucie M. Consentino" <>
Subject: News from Grand-Pre
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 12:09:43 -0400

Société Promotion Grand-Pré

Grand-Pré National Historic Site

Box 150, Grand-Pré, N.S. B0P 1M0

telephone : 902-542-3631

FAX : 902-542-1691






PRESS RELEASE


For immediate release







Grand-Pré : July 8, 2002



The Société Promotion Grand-Pré Launches Two New
Publications





In keeping with its mandate to promote Acadian history and culture, the
Société Promotion Grand-Pré has just launched two new publications. With
funding from Parks Canada, the Société Promotion Grand-Pré has produced two
excellent bilingual booklets designed for the general public.



With the help of maps, photos and drawings, the booklet called
Dykes and Aboiteaux describes how the early Acadians turned salt marshes
into fertile meadows. This is a very clear and well-written educational tool
that showcases the agricultural methods that reinforced the solidarity of
the Acadian people.



The booklet entitled Lt. Col. John Winslow’s List of the
Acadians in the Grand-Pré Area in 1755 provides an authentic reproduction of
the original document owned by the Massachusetts Historical Society.
Compiled at the request of Winslow, this list includes the names of the 446
men who were the heads of families living in the Grand-Pré region at the
time of the Deportation. It constitutes an invaluable document for anyone
doing genealogical research.



Each booklet is 16 pages long and costs only $2.95. Both
booklets can be purchased at the Boutique at Grand-Pré National Historic
Site and at numerous other sales outlets.



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For further information and wholesale orders, please contact:



Emilie Desveaux-Starratt Tel.: (902)
542-3322

Boutique Grand-Pré Fax: (902)
542-1691

P.O. Box 111 E-mail:


Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia Web Site:
www.grand-pre.com

Canada B0P 1M0







Lucie LeBlanc Consentino
Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home
www.acadian-home.org
They took the Acadian out of Acadia but
they couldn't take Acadia out of the Acadian

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