Produced by Mary Wampler, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions. OVER THE BORDER ACADIA THE HOME OF "EVANGELINE" BY Eliza Chase "Here lies the East...does not the day break here?" JULIUS CAESAR, II CONTENTS. THE BAY OF FUNDY THE BASIN OF MINAS PORT ROYAL ANNAPOLIS DIGBY HALIFAX GRAND PRÉ CLARE L'ISLE DES MONTS DESERTS CHRONOLOGY. DATE 1604. De Monts' first landing on Eastern coast. (May 16) 1604. De Monts and suite arrive at Port Royal. (about June 1) 1606. De Monts returns from France with supplies for his colony. 1606. Port Royal abandoned. 1610. Return of De Poutrincourt. 1612. Jesuit priests sent oat from France. (Founding of St. Sauveur colony at Mt Desert) 1613. Destruction of Port Royal by Argall. (after breaking up settlement at Mt. Desert) 1628. Scotch colony broken up at Port Royal. 1634. Port Royal held by French under De Razilly. 1647. Feud between La Tour and D'Aulnay. 1654. Port Royal under Le Borgne yields to English. 1684. Incursions of pirates. 1690. Sir Wm. Phipps captures and pillages Port Royal. 1691. Port Royal held by French under De Villebon. 1707. Unsuccessfully besieged. 1710. Bombarded by seven English ships; the fort yields, name changed to Annapolis Royal. 1713. Treaty of Utrecht, ceding Acadia to the English. 1727,1728. Oath of allegiance exempting French Acadians from taking arms against France. 1744. Port Royal bombarded and besieged three months. 1745. De Ramezay's unsuccessful attack. 1755. Forts Beau-Séjour and Gaspereau taken by Moncton. 1755. Dispersion of the "Neutrals". 1763. Return of exiles, and founding of coast settlements. Treaty between France and England 1781. Annapolis Royal surprised and taken by two war ships. 1850. Last occupation (by military force) of old fort at Annapolis. INTRODUCTION In the rooms of the Historical Society, in Boston, hangs a portrait of a distinguished looking person in quaint but handsome costume of antique style. The gold embroidered coat, long vest with large and numerous buttons, elegant cocked hat under the arm, voluminous white scarf and powdered peruke, combine to form picturesque attire which is most becoming to the gentleman therein depicted, and attract attention to the genial countenance, causing the visitor to wonder who this can be, so elaborately presented to the gaze. A physiognomist would not decide upon such representation as a "counterfeit presentment" of the tyrannical leader of the expedition which enforced the cruel edict of exile,-- "In the Acadian land, on the shores of the Basin of Minas; where Distant, secluded, still, the little village of Grand Pré Lay in the fruitful valley."