Parks Canada expects the cross will be fully restored and placed at the new site by July 28, the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the Acadian deportation. It began in 1755 and continued until ...

ST. MARTINVILLE — The Acadian Memorial and Museum that was shut down in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and threatened with permanent closure due to budget shortfalls has re-opened.

The church is near the Acadian Memorial and Museum. Here the deportation cross is surrounded by tiles with family crests of those very first settlers. “So these names still exist today.

The group that represents Acadian associations in Atlantic Canada plans to erect several monuments to commemorate the deportation. Two hundred and fifty years ago, British troops rounded up ...

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 ...

GMA on the road series continues in St. Martin Parish with the Acadian Memorial and Museum in St. Martinville. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays. Watch Now.

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.