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     health. They all constitute an important economic asset and a source 
     
     of employment. 
     
    

    
     When the roads were paved in the 1960s, the great improvement 
     
     in transportation meant that people could find jobs outside their 
     
     communities without having to move. Many workers and professionals 
     
     were able to be employed more than twenty miles away from their 
     
     home. 
     
    

    
     The increase in the level of education among Acadians obviously 
     
     contributed to the diversification of the economy. More and more 
     
     Acadian men and women were entering the professions and their 
     
     numbers were slowly increasing in the civil service. 
     
    

    
     The emigration of Acadian youth to other centres in Canada is 
     
     still a fact of life, as it is for all young Islanders. The restricted number 
     
     of job opportunites on the Island forces them to look elsewhere, 
     
     mainly in the large urban centres of the country. 
     
    
   
   
    
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     Wharf and plant belonging to the 
     
     Acadian Fishermen’s Co-operative 
     
     in Abram’s Village. 
     
    

    
     Georges Arsenault.