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.

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.

Port Royal, Grande Pre, Pisiguit and Cobequid were just names of places discovered in Bona Arsenault’s book "Histoire et Genealogie des Acadiens" until a trip to Nova Scotia made them ...

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.

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.