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.

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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.

Euclide Chiasson, head of the Socit Nationale des Acadiens, respectfully petitioned Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth to apologize for all the wrongs caused by the deportation of Acadian settlers in 1755.

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 ...

On Sunday, the party moves to Houma, where the city will unveil an Acadian Deportation Cross. That ceremony is set for 11 a.m. near the Bayou Terrebonne Waterlife Museum, 7910 Park Ave.

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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.