Travel Reference
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Grand Pré feels like the bucolic fringe of Wolfville. Today it's a very small English-
speaking town, but in the 1750s, it was the site of one of the most tragic but compelling
stories in eastern Canada's history, the Acadian deportation. Learn all about it at the
Grand Pré National Historic Site.
Sights
Grand Pré National Historic
Site
HISTORIC SITE
( 902-542-3631; 2205 Grand Pré Rd; adult/child $8.50/4.20; 9am-6pm May-Oct)
At the
Grand Pré National Historic Site, a modern interpretive center explains the historical
context for the deportation from Acadian, Mi'kmaw and British perspectives and traces
the many routes Acadians took from, and back to, the Maritimes. In 2012, the landscapes
of this area became a Unesco World Heritage site.
Beside the center, a serene
park
contains gardens and an Acadian-style stone church.
There's also a bust of American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who chronicled the
Acadian saga in
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie,
and a statue of his fictional Evangeline,
now a romantic symbol of her people.
Beyond the park, you can see the farmland created when the Acadians built dikes
along the shoreline as they had done in northwest France for generations. There are 12 sq
km below sea level here, protected by just over 9km of dike.
Sleeping & Eating
Olde Lantern Inn & Vineyard
INN $$$
( 902-542-1389, 877-965-3845;
www.oldlanterninn.com
; 11575 Hwy 1; r $100-155; )
Clean
lines, a friendly welcome and attention to every comfort makes this a great place to stay.
The vineyard grounds overlook Minas Basin, where you can watch the rise and fall of the
Fundy tides and gaze over the Grand Pré Unesco landscape.
Le Caveau
EUROPEAN $$$
( 902-542-1753; 11611 Hwy 1; mains $16-32; lunch & dinner)
Considered to be the finest
Northern European-style restaurant in the province, this Swiss restaurant is on the
grounds of Domaine de Grand Pré. The beautiful outdoor patio is paved with fieldstones
and shaded with grapevines.
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