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 ...

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.

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 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.

Chiasson said he would like to see the Queen herself come in 2005 to mark 250 years since the deportation by reading the declaration. Heritage Minister Sheila Copps played a key role in getting ...

In 1990, I filed a petition seeking an apology for the Acadian Deportation from the area now a part of Canada. On Dec. 9, 2003, Queen Elizabeth II signed the Royal Proclamation acknowledging the ...

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.

Digital access Digital + home delivery. In lost diary, story of Acadian resistance is found ...

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.