164 ‘The French in Prince Edward Island

quent to that date. The chief defect of the census is the absence of a statistical summary, although this has not been an unmixed evil as it has compelled one to go over it many times and in so doing to receive impressions that would otherwise have been missed; and, moreover, neither the pathos nor the humor of life can find adequate expression in statistics. It is one thing to say that an enforced migration causes hardships to young and old alike, but one receives a much more vivid impression of hardship from read- ing such an excerpt as the following, in which an old couple of eighty-eight and eighty-three years, re- spectively, have to pull up their stakes and share the common ruin of their children and grandchildren:

Paul Boudrot, ploughman, native of l’Acadie, aged 49 years, has been two years in the colony. Married to Marie Joseph Duaron, native of l’Acadie, aged 40 years.

They have io sons and three daughters:

Jean Charles Boudrot, aged 12 years ; Bazille, aged 4 years;

Margueritte, aged 17 years; Francoise, aged 14 years;

Anne, aged 7 years.

Charles Douaron, their father, native of l’Acadie, aged 90 years and infirm. Married to Frangoise Godet, native of l’Acadie, aged 85 years.

They have in live stock five oxen, four cows, one sow and four pigs. The land on which they are settled is situated on the Riviere des Blanes, it has been given to them verbally by M. de Bonnaventure. They have made