Passion for Survival

By Linda Layton

The true story of Marie Anne and Louis Payzant in eighteenth century Nova Scotia.

This dramatized history will appeal to enthusiasts of early Canadian history of Nova Scotia, Quebec and Acadia as well as readers who love a great adventure story as it focuses on the author's 5th great grandmother who was caught in the religious struggle between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism, and the colonial struggle between our two founding cultures.

Marie Anne and Louis Payzant had high hopes for a new future as they left a comfortable life on the island of Jersey and sailed with their children across the Atlantic to a new settlement on the shores of Nova Scotia in June 1753. Both had already fled religious persecution in their native France. In this fascinating and true account of Louis & Marie Anne Payzant, author Linda Layton has pieced together the couple’s heartbreaking sense of loss, their struggles and deaths set against the backdrop of one of the most chaotic times in the history of Europe and North America.

The author is the great-great-great-great granddaughter of Marie Anne and Louis. She has spent years researching and traveling in a quest for facts about her ancestors 

Details:

176 Pages
6 X 9" inches
Softcover - paperback
Published by Nimbus Publishing, 2003
ISBN: 9781551094571