Extensive tracts of good arable land exist in many parts of the Acadian region.
Here we find a variety of habitats including salt marsh, Acadian and red spruce forest and tidal mudflats.
In 1755 the British took the stern step of deporting the Acadian French from Nova Scotia.
The scenes of the recurrent wars were mostly distant from Massachusetts proper, either in Maine or on Canadian or Acadian territory, although some savage inroads of the Indians were now and then made on the exposed frontier towns, as, for instance, upon Deerfield in 1704 and upon Haverhill in 1708.
The " maritime provinces " of eastern Canada, including Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, may be considered together; and to these provinces as politically bounded may be added, from a physical point of view, the analogous south-eastern part of Quebec - the entire area being designated the Acadian region.