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     of francophone Boy Scouts. The Acadians also took over 
     
     the Canada Day celebrations in Tignish. For several years, 
     
     a Christmas play was written and presented by a group 
     
     which called themselves Theatre du Grand" Couctte after 
     
     Pierre Perrey’s nickname. These plays were further proof 
     
     of the remarkable people and projects which can arise in 
     
     Tignish. Though very popular at the time, they have not 
     
     received the cultural recognition which is their due. No 
     
     other Acadian or partly-Acadian community on the 
     
     Island has done as much. Another project which has 
     
     endured and contributed to the entire area is the bilingual 
     
     Community Bulletin. This two-to-six page weekly 
     
     newsletter was set up as part of a two-year intensive project 
     
     whose aim was to help the West Prince area catch up with 
     
     the Evangeline region, in which French is the language of 
     
     the majority. Previously, all local announcements had to be 
     
     published in the Parish Bulletin. Now announcements and 
     
     other small news items (but not commercial advertising) 
     
     can be read in this free newsletter, which is supported 
     
     financially by the Credit Union and the Co-operative 
     
     Association, among others, and covers the neighbouring 
     
     district of Palmer Road as well. 
     
    
   
   
    
     It was during the seventies too that a Sunday mass 
     
     in French became a regular part of Tignish's liturgical life. 
     
     Then in 1980, the provincial government returned the 
     
     right to education in French to the descendents Of those 
     
     Acadians to whom it had been denied in the previous 
     
     century. Several attempts have been made to find the 
     
     twenty-five French-speaking children necessary by law 
     
     to establish an all-French school in the Tignish and Palmer 
     
     Road areas. These attempts have not, as yet, succeeded. 
     
     Local Acadians have had to be content with French 
     
     Immersion classes, and even these have become less 
     
     popular in the nineties.