The bronze sculpture by artists Jules Lasalle and Andre Fournelle, depicting the expulsion of the Acadians which started in 1755, graces the landscape at Grand Pre in Nova Scotia's Annapolis ...

Parks Canada has designated four new historically significant sites or events including one that recognizes a dark chapter in the history of Prince Edward Island, the expulsion of thousands of ...

It is widely accepted that the deportation of more than 10,000 Acadians from the Maritimes ... who have sought to minimize the expulsion as an act of war, and francophone historians, who have ...

The first victims of the move to drive out the French were not even in Canada – but a peaceful population of Acadians in Nova Scotia who refused to swear an oath to the English King. In the late ...

A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians From Their American Homeland By John Mack Faragher Norton, 592 pp. $28.95 Whatever most Americans know about the ...

LSU Press has released the paperback edition of “Acadian Odyssey,” the 1955 book by Oscar William Winzerling that details the history of the Acadian expulsion. Winzerling, a Roman Catholic ...

“Scattered and Near Forgotten” memorializes the 1755 Acadian expulsion from Nova Scotia, during a brutal act of war by the Colonial British, in an episode called, by the French, “Le Grand ...

the expulsion of thousands of Acadians during the 18th century. The 1758 deportation of 3,000 French-speaking settlers from Île Saint-Jean, as P.E.I. was then known, "is a significant and ...

Or sign-in if you have an account. It is widely accepted that the deportation of more than 10,000 Acadians from the Maritimes in the late 1700s was a crime against humanity, even by contemporary ...