The annual commemoration of the Acadian Deportation is not held to live in the past, but rather to understand that this tragic event has shaped the character and vision of 5 million Acadians.

But in Acadiana, Queen Elizabeth II is recognized for a different feat — bringing closure to descendants of those forced out of Canada as part of the Acadian Deportation. According to the ...

In January 1990, I prepared a petition and had it delivered to the British Crown. The petition sought a formal apology for their role 267 years ago in the 1755 Deportation of 18,000 Acadians from ...

In January 1990, I prepared a petition and had it delivered to the British Crown. The petition sought a formal apology for their role 265 years ago in the 1755 deportation of 18,000 Acadians from ...

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 ...

Warren Perrin of Lafayette discusses the Acadian renaissance Aug. 18, 2019, at the Louisiana Pavilion during Congres' Mondial Acadien 2019 in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.

It may have taken 249 years, but the Queen and her Acadian subjects have agreed to put the deportation behind them. The federal government, in the name of the Queen, has agreed to issue a ...

ANNAPOLIS ROYAL, N.S. — About 30 people gathered at the end of Queen’s Wharf in Annapolis Royal on July 28 to remember more than 1,600 Acadians who were deported from there nearly 300 years ago.

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. Nov. 26, 2009 ...

The years after the deportation of Acadians are described by this defiant sentence: “A place called Acadia no longer existed, but it was still possible to be an Acadian in North America. ...

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