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Article: Acadia, Acadia! ... the real story is fascinating and full of surprises.
- Article from:
- Queen's Quarterly
- Article date:
- September 22, 1998
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WAYNE GRADY is the author of Chasing the Chinook: On the Trail of Canadian Words and Culture, from which this piece is excerpted. The book will be published this fall by Penguin.
BUCTOUCHE is a small town at the mouth of the Buctouche River in New Brunswick. It is also the summer home of Antonine Maillet. I had just translated Maillet's short novel Christophe Cartier de la noisette, dit Nounours, and was about to embark on her monumental allegory Le Huitieme jour, and I wanted to get the lay of the Acadian landscape. I had a literary sense of the Buctouche area, but I wanted to see it and hear it for myself. I stopped outside a low brick building, one of those ...