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Article: Acadian Legends, Folktales, and Songs from Prince Edward Island.(Book Review)
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- April 1, 2005
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Acadian Legends, Folktales, and Songs from Prince Edward Island. By Georges Arsenault. Translated by Sally Ross. Charlottetown, PEI: Acorn Press, 2002. xiii + 157 pp. Illus. CAN$18.95 (pbk). ISBN 1-894838-02-5
"I'm not singing for him, he's English," whispered Maggie Chaisson to her daughter when in 1972 Georges Arsenault, an undergraduate making his first attempt at collecting folksongs, arrived in her home in Saint-Edouard, Prince Edward Island. Mme Chaisson relented once Arsenault spoke to her in French and told her that his mother came from the village, although he had grown up in another Acadian settlement. Acadians make up some twelve per cent of the ...