A couple of Canadian Pacific menus — one with a church on the cover and one with a painting representing Evangeline — tell the story of the eviction of the Acadians after the British won the French & Indian War in 1755. This booklet tells the story in more detail.
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Evangeline was made up by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to represent the tragedy of this forced movement. The booklet insists that Longfellow based her on a woman named Emmeline, who along with others in the poem were “not fictitious, but real characters, according to Acadian tradition.”
The booklet was issued by the Dominion Atlantic Railway, which also created the Grand Pré Park that is described in the booklet and that eventually became a Canadian National Park. As the booklet notes, in 1912 the Canadian Pacific leased the entire Dominion Atlantic for 999 years, but continued to operate it as a separate company. Dominion Atlantic so identified with Evangeline that it had her image on its logo, which declared it to be the “land of Evangeline route.”