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The Tatamagouche of August 1947 is very different from that Tatamagouche of August 15th 1755. Then its air was a dark pall, heavy with the smoke and the smell of burning buildings. Now in this August day, nearly two hundred years later, a bright sun shines through a cloudless sky and the Village:
Though the destruction of the Acadian village of Tatamagouche was only a small incident in the Expulsion yet it was the first district on the Peninsula to be destroyed and its inhabitants the first to know that their long fears of an expulsion were at last a reality. Grand Pre was not visited by British troops till three weeks later and it was surprising that friendly Acadians had not gone through with the news. The main Cobequid villages were not burned till October and there the inhabitants, warned by what had happened at Tatamagouche, escaped to the woods. Still unknown is the fate of the Tatamagouche women and children. While elsewhere the women and children were deported, those at Tatamagouche were left behind, at least for the time being. *MacBeth: Act I: Scene VI
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