![]() The Acadians, however, refuse to swear total allegiance to the Anglo-Saxon king, or at least to commit to taking arms against the French king. The English win the battles, of course, and the Quebecois await over four centuries for Charles de Gaulle to restore their pride and their patois however, it had either changed or simply endured. Remember the plot of the verse? The Brits and the French are continually at war over rights to the Canadian soil and shorelines, rich in fish and farmland. Is it possible, as Michele Doucette, a computer– or “ordinateur” – “friend” claims, that Evangeline herself, or the people she symbolized, was a secret Jewish conversa? ![]() What was I doing here? Well, my wife was at a conference on breastfeeding and I travelled with her on a research hunch. I stayed for the Kiddush after a Rosh Hodesh service and said “L’chaim” over shot glasses of excellent Canadian club and Crown Royal offered, perhaps surprisingly, with matzah as well as mini pitas. ![]() Now a 92-year-old widower, Reuben conducted the Sabbath prayers at the nearby Tifereth synagogue on Steadman Street just off Main Street. Who are they? Polish Holocaust survivors who prospered in Moncton. The gift case display bears the names “Louise and Reuben Cohen”. Where? Moncton University (the only exclusively francophone college in Canada) in the Acadian Museum building. “Evangeline” – the romantic, tragic, poetic epic by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow we used to read in the Providence public schools – is depicted on postcards, posters, clips from the eponymous Hollywood movie with Dolores del Rio in the title role, in marble busts within glass cases and on canvas in somber hues.
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