38 = Historical Guidebook of the Evangeline Region 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
          
     
    
   
   
    
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     The Acadian Festival in 1978. Every year the Festival showcases the rich cultural heritage of the Evangeline Region. 
     
     Three young dancers are step-dancing to a tune played by the amazing fiddler Eddy Arsenault (son of Arcade, son of 
     
     Joe Mocauque) who is accompanied by his brother Amand on the guitar. (Photo by Maurice Arsenault) 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     The Agricultural Exhibi- 
     
     tion in Abram’s Village, 
     
     circa 1955. This is the 
     
     oldest continuing rural 
     
     agricultural fair on the 
     
     Island. It started out as a 
     
     local event but gradually 
     
     grew in size until it 
     
     received provincial exhi- 
     
     bition status in 1988. 
     
    

    
     The first fair took place in 
     
     Urbainville on 17 October 
     
     1903 under the auspices 
     
     of the Farmers’ Institute. 
     
     The editor of the news- 
     
     paper L’Impartial congrat- 
     
     ulated the organizers for 
     
     their initiative in the fol- 
     
     lowing manner: “Aside 
     
     from adopting a superb 
     
     way of showing their ag- 
     
     ricultural skills, the peo- 
     
     ple in Egmont Bay dem- 
     
     onstrated to our youth 
     
     the advantages of tilling 
     
     the soil rather than going 
     
     to the United States to 
     
     become slaves in the fac- 
     
     tories of the great repub- 
     
     lic.” (Raymond Bernard 
     
     Collection)