Chiasson's ancestors were among the Acadians kicked off their land 249 years ago by English soldiers. Acadians have been trying ever since to get an apology from the British Crown.

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.

The ensuing deportation lasted eight years as British soldiers rounded up civilians, burning homes and crops in an effort to forcibly remove more than 10,000 Acadians from the Maritimes.

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.

On July 28, 1755, British Governor Charles Lawrence ordered the deportation of all Acadians from Nova Scotia who refused to take an oath of allegiance to Britain. Over the following 13 years, ...

According to the Acadian Museum in Erath, around 10,000 men, women and children were expelled from Nova Scotia in 1755, which would come to be known as the Acadian Deportation or the Great Upheaval.

The P.E.I. Acadian community holds a remembrance ceremony for the 850 Acadians who died during the deportation from the Island 250 years ago. CBC News · Posted: Dec 12, 2010 6:20 PM EST | Last ...

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.

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 ...