Some escaped the deportation and were able to retreat ... Modern Farmer and the Coast. Acadian Driftwood is his first book.

“This book is a collection of 65 articles by ... The British conducted a forced deportation of the Acadians, who would spend the next 60 years as exiles. A small group would eventually find ...

In 1990, I filed a petition seeking an apology for the Acadian Deportation from the area that is now a part of Canada. On Dec. 9, 2003, Queen Elizabeth II signed the Royal Proclamation ...

One hundred years ago little had been written about the Acadian deportation from the Maritimes ... Le Blanc has revised and enhanced Dudley LeBlanc’s books to be re-released for their own ...

In 1755 all Acadians who wouldn't declare allegiance to Britain were ordered to leave Nova Scotia. Here's where they went. On July 28, 1755, British Governor Charles Lawrence ordered the deportation ...

Port Royal, Grande Pre, Pisiguit and Cobequid were just names of places discovered in Bona Arsenault’s book "Histoire ... about the Acadians and the tragic events of their deportation.

The P.E.I. Acadian community held a remembrance ceremony Sunday afternoon for the 850 Acadians who died during the deportation from the Island 250 years ago. Forty people attended the ceremony at ...

HALIFAX – Transcripts from a diary kept by a young American soldier fighting for the British is giving historians a new twist on the deportation of Acadians from the Maritimes in the 18th century.

Boudreau called the film a “temoignage” – a testimony of hope for other people in the world who find themselves displaced as the Acadians were during the deportation, which has since become ...

Their peaceful existence was uprooted in 1755 when over 10,000 Acadians were ripped from their homeland to ensure British rule in North America. This Heritage Minute portrays the deportation ...

Hundreds of thousands of Acadians emigrated to Louisiana following deportation by the British during the Acadian Expulsion of the mid-18th century, hence the term 'Cajun.' ...