The Maritimes

Where to? I've always wanted to see the East.

Yeah, the Maritimes are nice.

That's what you meant, wasn't it? The Maritimes? Possibly.

Further? Oh, my God.

Not...

Uh, so as people came into Canada, in particular the French, uh, they really brought with them a lot of that sort of classic garden tradition from France and those old garden roses.

And, and so you began to see a lot of old garden roses appearing in Quebec and the Maritime provinces.

And, you know, those roots go back really all the way to, like, the earliest colonial gardens, and really trying to just mimic what was going on, um, in Europe at the time.

And, uh, you know, and it's also worth noting that, you know, th- with the native roses and the species roses, the Indigenous people of Canada had been, you know, interacting with those plants for their, you know, medicinal qualities, the hips, um, for, for years and years before anybody even showed up.

The treaty had given Great Britain the province of Acadia with its ancient boundaries.

The ancient boundaries, Great Britain claimed, included the whole mainland of the present maritime provinces and the Gasp Peninsula, whereas France contended that they embraced only the peninsula of Nova Scotia.

Both powers, therefore, claimed the country north of the Isthmus of Chignecto, and the definition of the boundary became a more and more pressing question.

The outbreak of the war of the Austrian succession in Europe in 1741 set the match to the fuse.

The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, Joseph A. Breaux, is of Acadian descent.

In Canada, the Right Reverend Edward LeBlanc, Bishop of Acadia, the Honorable P. E. LeBlanc, Lieutenant Governor of the Province of Quebec, and the Honorable Pascal Poirier, Senator, are Acadians, as are many other prominent men.

and isabelle labarre who married jean foret of beaubassin was one of the maternal ancestors of sir wilfrid laurier save in the maritime provinces it is not possible to count the offspring of the original french settlers of acadia who came out from france in the seventeenth century it is estimated that there were at the time of the expulsion ten or eleven thousand under the british flag and four or five thousand in isle st jean and elsewhere on french territory about six thousand were deported as we have seen and scattered over the british colonies undoubtedly a great number of americans of to-day are descendants of those exiles but except at the mouth of the mississippi they are merged in the general population and their identity is lost Neither can we tell how many of those who found their way to old France remained there permanently.

For upwards of twenty years the French government was concerned in finding places for them.

It's right to talk about this solemn occasion that is 9-11 and the effect it had on each of us and on baseball.

I have some memories that I'll pass on later, but Keegan, you were just a kid, I believe, probably in the Maritimes.

But it must have left a mark on you, the event, the fact that Maritimers were so welcoming to the flights that were stuck in the air and come from away, that sort of story.

I know I was in Newfoundland and you were in Nova Scotia, but what are some of your memories? Because I remember JFK being shot and I was 10 and it stuck with me forever and makes me emotional to this day.

But how about you growing up in Nova Scotia?