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North from Yarmouth, Hwy 101 and the far slower Hwy 1 slip across the flat littoral of the 100-kilometre French Shore , whose straggling villages house the largest concentration of Acadians in the province. Their gold-starred red, white and blue flags are everywhere, but there's nothing worth stopping for - METEGHAN , the main town, is strikingly ugly - until you reach POINTE DE L'EGLISE (Church Point). Here, right next to the sea, is the massive church of St Mary's (July to mid-Oct daily 9.30am-5pm; free), whose stolid tower and steeple, finished in 1905, reach a giddy 56m. Unfortunately, the fastidiously clean interior holds some of the worst religious paintings imaginable, nineteenth-century dross with none of the medievalism suggested by the reliquaries beside the altar, amongst which are wooden shards purportedly from the Holy Cross. Ten kilometres further north is the church of St Bernard (June-Sept daily 9.30am-5pm; free), a cumbersome granite pile that took 32 years to complete (1910-42) - and is, if nothing else, certainly a tribute to the profound Catholicism of local Acadians.
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