In the Province of HistoryUsing archival sources, novels, government reports, and works on tourism and heritage, Ian McKay and Robin Bates look at how state planners, key politicians, and cultural figures such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, long time premier Angus L. Macdonald, and novelist Thomas Raddall were all instrumental in forming "tourism history." The authors argue that Longfellow's 1847 poem Evangeline on the brutal British expulsion of Acadians from Nova Scotia