Grand-Pré is a Canadian rural community in Kings County, Nova Scotia. Its French name translates to "Great Meadow" and the community lies at the eastern edge of the Annapolis Valley several kilometres east of the town of Wolfville on a peninsula jutting into the Minas Basin, framed by the Gaspereau and Cornwallis Rivers.

During the French and Indian War (1755-63), a tragic incident was the expulsion of the French Acadians— described by Longfellow in Evangeline. Many of the Acadians migrated south to Louisiana. The word "Cajun" is a variant of Acadian, combining aphesis (dropping of the leading letter) with slurring the final syllable (as with the American pejorative "Injun" for "Indian".