The Dikes: 1955 National Film Board of Canada

The Dikes is a dramatized presentation of the work of the Maritime Marshland Rehabilitation Administration in the reclaiming of flooded agricultural regions along the Bay of Fundy. Through the account of a dike-keeper, the film describes the destruction that follows the breaking of long-neglected dikes during autumn rains and shows how M.M.R.A. engineers are cooperating with land-owners in the big task of keeping at bay the inundations of the sea. Filmed in 1955. Time: 20:54

https://www.nfb.ca/film/dikes_en/ https://www.onf.ca/film/aboiteaux/

Creating farmland, the heart and soul of early Acadia

“In the Acadian land, on the shores of the Basin of Minas,
Distant, secluded, still, the little village of Grand-Pré
Lay in the fruitful valley. Vast meadows stretched to the eastward,
Giving the village its name, and pasture to flocks without number.
Dikes, that the hands of the farmers had raised with labor incessant,
Shut out the turbulent tides; but at stated seasons the flood-gates
Opened, and welcomed the sea to wander at will o'er the meadows.”

The Song of Evangeline, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 1847