>> And partly populated later by refugee Acadians (French Canadians) who
>> around 1755 had been thrown out of Canada and off the lands they had
>> pioneered and [1] turned into farms by (you guessed it!) the English. I had to
>> look up the date and discovered that Wiki describes this atrocity as
>> "almost half of the total Acadian population of Nova Scotia deciding to
>> relocate to French controlled territories".

>> Lesley.

> We read "Evangeline" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in English Class.

> George A. Strong (1832 1912) :

> When he killed the Mudjokivis,
> Of the skin he made him mittens,
> Made them with the fur side inside,
> Made them with the skin side outside.
> He, to get the warm side inside,
> Put the inside skin side outside;
> He to get the cold side outside
> Put the warm side fur side inside.
> That's why he put the fur side inside,
> Why he put the skin side outside,
> Why he turned them inside outside.