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Library and Archives Canada: 16mm.
"While some historical retrospective does take place, the best part of the film takes the viewer on a tour of present day farming and fishing communities in Nova Scotia, at work and at play, looking at what Acadians are best known for. Noteworthy pictorials: artisan rug making; the fort at Port Royal; the statue of Evangeline; the Annapolis Valley. Fishermen take time out to sing accompanied by an accordian."
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta: 16mm
"Descendants of the first settlers of Nova Scotia, the Acadians still have characteristics quite different from their countrymen of Quebec. Fishing and farming, as the film shows, are traditional occupations, and other crafts are handed on through the generations. The hand-hooked rugs of Cape Breton are famous - as is Evangeline's shrine at Grand Pré. Along the fish-wharves in the evening, the Acadians join in songs of the Old World in the New."
From the Catalogue of 16mm Educational Motion Pictures. Published by the Educational Media Division, Department of Extension, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 1967.
Online database National Film Board of Canada.
"Les Acadiens des Maritimes. Les descendants français des premiers colons de la Nouvelle-Écosse restent différents de leur concitoyens du Québec. La plupart sont des pêcheurs ou agriculteurs. Les autres s'adonnent à différents métiers qu'ils se sont transmis de père en fils. Ils excellent notamment dans les travaux d'artisanat et d'arts domestiques. Les tapis crochetés du Cap-Breton sont renommés même à l'étranger. Bref l'âme acadienne a gardé son caractère de foi chrétienne de ténacité paysanne qui n'a fait que se vivifier à travers ses longs malheurs."
"Descendants of the first settlers of Nova Scotia, the Acadians still have characteristics quite different from their countrymen of Quebec. Fishing and farming, as the film shows, are traditional occupations, and other crafts are handed on through the generations. The hand-hooked rugs of Cape Breton are famous - as is Evangeline's shrine at Grand Pré. Along the fish-wharves in the evening, the Acadians join in songs of the Old World in the New."