A Tale of Acadie - a poem written by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in 1847. In its centre the love story of an Acadian girl Evangeline Bellefontaine and Gabriel Lajeunesse. They are separated as the British government deports the Acadians - people that lived in parts of northeastern America that formerly belonged to French colonial empire - in the times of Great Upheaval, deportation of Acadians to France by British forces in 1755. Evangeline traverses through the entire America in her quest for Gabriel. Finally she finds a job of sister of mercy in Philadelphia helping the poor and the sick. At the end of the poem she finds Gabriel there being sick and he died at her hands. Poem is written in dactylic hexameter reminding of the meter, which was Homer's "Ilyad" and "Odyssey" written in. The theme was hinted to Longfellow by his fellow writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. The poem became enormously popular, it was the most famous work by Longfellow within his life-span. In 1934 the first state park opened in Lousiana and it was called Longfellow-Evangeline State Park. In 1913 the first feature Canadian film was shot and it was also called "Evangeline" being an adaptation of Longfellow's poem.