In this way the Atchafalaya River becomes important in flood control. By constructing a floodway through the Atchafalaya Valley in a superflood the excess water that the Bonnet Carre spillway did not take could be turned into the floodway of the Atchafalaya. This is the valley where Evangeline and the Acadians finally settled after their deportation and dispersion by the British from Nova Scotia 175 years ago. as portrayed by Longfellow in his poem Evangeline. Between 10.000 and 15.000 of these French Canadians were boarded on British ships and scattered along the Atlantic coast from Maryland south. Many of them wandered south to get beneath the French flag in Louisiana.
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