With time on our tails, we headed for the National Historic Site of Grand Pre, inspiration for poet Henry Wordsworth Longfellow’s ‘Evangeline”. The epic ‘Tale of Acadie’ traces love lost when a young couple become separated during the Acadian deportation by the British in 1755. Our visit to the chapel and museum honouring this tragedy was on a late winter afternoon. Crunching through deep snow looking for photo vantage points, I silently applauded the survival of this micro culture, so evident in the tri-coloured Acadian flags and symbols along modern touristic routes such as the Evangeline Trail. www.grand-pre.com