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407 MAIN ST
Wolfville,
Nova Scotia
B4P 1A0
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Nova Scotia Tourism Region : Bay of Fundy & Annapolis Valley
Description From Owner:
- The name is French and descriptive for ‘great meadow' and widely known as the setting for the poem Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82).
- Mi'kmaq knew the area as Umtaban meaning ‘an overflowing flood,' because tides covered much of the lowlands before dikes were built.
- Settlement began here as early as 1680. The first church was the Acadian church of St. Charles built before 1707.
- With permission from 'Nova Scotia Place Names' David E. Scott 2015
Address of this page:
http://ns.ruralroutes.com/GrandPre
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'Evangeline' was Canada's first feature film. It premiered in Halifax in 1913.
Grand Pre Unesco National Historic Site
The site is at 2241 Grand Pré Road, Grand Pré. Here is the church and cemetery of the 17th- and 18th-century Acadian village that was the inspiration for Longfellow's narrative poem, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie that commemorates the Acadian deportation.
There are lovely gardens and a memorial church with paintings and stained glass. The visitor centre has a number of exhibits, an art gallery and gift shop.
Sir Robert Laird Borden
Introduced Canadian Income Tax Sir Robert Laird Borden (1854-1937), born at Grand Pré, served as the 8th prime minister of Canada 1911-20.
He was a teacher in Nova Scotia and NJ, a lawyer (without a formal university education), Chancellor of Queen's University and stood as president of two financial institutions.
He swept to power by campaigning against Sir Wilfrid Laurier's plan for free trade in natural products with the United States, instead arguing in favour of Imperial preference which would use tariffs to diminish imports from outside the British Empire.
In 1914 he passed the War Measures Act and committed 500,000 soldiers for the First World War effort.
When volunteers dried up he passed the very controversial Military Service Act, and the Conscription Crisis of 1917 split the country along linguistic lines.
Borden also introduced the first Canadian income tax which was meant to be temporary...but has never been repealed. He was the last prime minister to be knighted after Parliament abolished all future titles for Canadians in 1919.
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