Travel by ancestry adds a new dimension to planning a vacation.  With a search for ancestry as a primary focus, a vacation can span days, weeks, even centuries!  At La Have, Nova Scotia, the headwaters of an Mikmaq-Acadian heritage and culture, travel by ancestry holds special significance for those who search for indigenous Mi'kmaq-Acadian roots. 

A drive to Petite Riviere might begin at nine in the morning and end in the seventeenth century -- at an ancient Mi'kmaq - Acadian burial ground.  Follow a winding path through a farmer's field; and there, in a clearing, you may encounter a granite stone, guarded by a lone white horse -- the familiar surnames of founding ancestors, who lived nearly four hundred years ago, carved into its surface.

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