The Acadians Of Nova Scotia

Author : Sally Ross,Alphonse Deveau
Publisher : Nimbus Publishing (CN)
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 1551090120

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The Acadians of Nova Scotia by Sally Ross,Alphonse Deveau Pdf

The first work devoted exclusively to Acadians in Nova Scotia, this book presents a thorough study of Acadian history from the earliest days of French settlement to present-day Acadian communities. Authors Sally Ross and Alphonse Deveau draw on original seventeenth-century texts, as well as up-to-date sources. They examine the history of the Expulsion--the Grand Dérangement--that began in 1755, and trace the return of the Acadians and their resettlement in seven areas of the province. The authors highlight the distinct features that have developed within these different regions of Nova Scotia and discuss the choices and challenges faced by Acadians today: the linguistic assimilation and preservation of a distinct culture against pressures from the mainstream culture. Acadians of Nova Scotia won the 1993 Dartmouth Book Award for non-fiction and the 1993 Evelyn Richardson Memorial Literary Prize for non-fiction.

Author : Tyler LeBlanc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Acadians
ISBN : 1773101188

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Acadian Driftwood by Tyler LeBlanc Pdf

Winner, Evelyn Richardson Award for Non-Fiction and Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing Finalist, Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction, and the Margaret and John Savage Award for Best First Book (Non-fiction) A Hill Times' 100 Best Books in 2020 Selection On Canada's History Bestseller List Growing up on the south shore of Nova Scotia, Tyler LeBlanc wasn't fully aware of his family's Acadian roots -- until a chance encounter with an Acadian historian prompted him to delve into his family history. LeBlanc's discovery that he could trace his family all the way to the time of the Acadian Expulsion and beyond forms the basis of this compelling account of Le Grand Dérangement. Piecing together his family history through archival documents, Tyler LeBlanc tells the story of Joseph LeBlanc (his great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather), Joseph's ten siblings, and their families. With descendants scattered across modern-day Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, the LeBlancs provide a window into the diverse fates that awaited the Acadians when they were expelled from their homeland. Some escaped the deportation and were able to retreat into the wilderness. Others found their way back to Acadie. But many were exiled to Britain, France, or the future United States, where they faced suspicion and prejudice and struggled to settle into new lives. A unique biographical approach to the history of the Expulsion, Acadian Driftwood is a vivid insight into one family's experience of this traumatic event.

Author : Naomi E.S. Griffiths
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1992-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773563209

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Contexts of Acadian History, 1686-1784 by Naomi E.S. Griffiths Pdf

In 1600 there were no such people as the Acadians; by 1700 the Acadians, who numbered almost 2,000, lived in an area now covered by northern Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and the southern Gaspé region of Quebec. While most of their ancestors had come to live there from France, a number had arrived from Scotland and England. Their relations with the original inhabitants of the region, the Micmac and Malecite peoples, were generally peaceful. In 1713 the Treaty of Utrecht recognized the Acadian community and gave their territory -- on the frontier between New England and New France -- to Great Britain. During the next forty years the Acadians continued to prosper and to develop their political life and distinctive culture. The deportation of 1755, however, exiled the majority of Acadians to other British colonies in North America. Some went on from their original destination to England, France, or Santo Domingo; many of those who arrived in France continued on to Louisiana; some Acadians eventually returned to Nova Scotia, but not to the lands they once held. The deportation, however, did not destroy the Acadian community. In spite of a horrific death toll, nine years of proscription, and the forfeiture of property and political rights, the Acadians continued to be part of Nova Scotia. The communal existence they were able to sustain, Griffiths shows, formed the basis for the recovery of Acadian society when, in 1764, they were again permitted to own land in the colony. Instead of destroying the Acadian community, the deportation proved to be a source of power for the formation of Acadian identity in the nineteenth century. By placing Acadian history in the context of North American and European realities, Griffiths removes it from the realms of folklore and partisan political interpretation. She brings into play the current historiographical concerns about the development of the trans-Atlantic world of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, considerably sharpening our focus on this period of North American history.

Author : Naomi Elizabeth Saundaus Griffiths,Mount Allison University. Centre for Canadian Studies
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0773508864

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The Contexts of Acadian History, 1686-1784 by Naomi Elizabeth Saundaus Griffiths,Mount Allison University. Centre for Canadian Studies Pdf

In the first study to connect the Acadian experience with the heritage of ideas the migrants brought with them from Europe, Naomi Griffiths explores the creation and endurance of the Acadian community and the ways in which the Acadians differed from the people of New England and New France. One result of the war between England and France for the domination of much of North America was the deportation of the Acadians from their homeland in 1755. Griffiths examines the implications of this deportation for the survival of the Acadian community.

Author : John Mack Faragher
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393242430

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A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland by John Mack Faragher Pdf

"Altogether superb: an accessible, fluent account that advances scholarship while building a worthy memorial to the victims of two and a half centuries past." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme" to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French") from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable families, and driving many into forests where they waged a desperate guerrilla resistance. The right of neutrality; to live in peace from the imperial wars waged between France and England; had been one of the founding values of Acadia; its settlers traded and intermarried freely with native Mikmaq Indians and English Protestants alike. But the Acadians' refusal to swear unconditional allegiance to the British Crown in the mid-eighteenth century gave New Englanders, who had long coveted Nova Scotia's fertile farmland, pretense enough to launch a campaign of ethnic cleansing on a massive scale. John Mack Faragher draws on original research to weave 150 years of history into a gripping narrative of both the civilization of Acadia and the British plot to destroy it.

Author : Université de Moncton. Centre d'études acadiennes
Publisher : Moncton, N.B. : Centre d'études acadiennes
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Acadians
ISBN : UOM:39015001702300

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The Acadians of the Maritimes by Université de Moncton. Centre d'études acadiennes Pdf

"Acadia" covered the Maritime provinces which are the present provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.

Author : Bona Arsenault
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UVA:X000594587

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History of the Acadians by Bona Arsenault Pdf

Author : Christopher Hodson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199876464

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The Acadian Diaspora by Christopher Hodson Pdf

Late in 1755, an army of British regulars and Massachusetts volunteers completed one of the cruelest, most successful military campaigns in North American history, capturing and deporting seven thousand French-speaking Catholic Acadians from the province of Nova Scotia, and chasing an equal number into the wilderness of eastern Canada. Thousands of Acadians endured three decades of forced migrations and failed settlements that shuttled them to the coasts of South America, the plantations of the Caribbean, the frigid islands of the South Atlantic, the swamps of Louisiana, and the countryside of central France. The Acadian Diaspora tells their extraordinary story in full for the first time, illuminating a long-forgotten world of imperial desperation, experimental colonies, and naked brutality. Using documents culled from archives in France, Great Britain, Canada, and the United States, Christopher Hodson reconstructs the lives of Acadian exiles as they traversed oceans and continents, pushed along by empires eager to populate new frontiers with inexpensive, pliable white farmers. Hodson's compelling narrative situates the Acadian diaspora within the dramatic geopolitical changes triggered by the Seven Years' War. Faced with redrawn boundaries and staggering national debts, imperial architects across Europe used the Acadians to realize radical plans: tropical settlements without slaves, expeditions to the unknown southern continent, and, perhaps strangest of all, agricultural colonies within old regime France itself. In response, Acadians embraced their status as human commodities, using intimidation and even violence to tailor their communities to the superheated Atlantic market for cheap, mobile labor. Through vivid, intimate stories of Acadian exiles and the diverse, transnational cast of characters that surrounded them, The Acadian Diaspora presents the eighteenth-century Atlantic world from a new angle, challenging old assumptions about uprooted peoples and the very nature of early modern empire.

Author : Dianne Marshall
Publisher : Formac Publishing Company Limited
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780887809781

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Heroes of the Acadian Resistance by Dianne Marshall Pdf

Heroes of the Acadian Resistance tells the unique story of 2 young men who became leaders of guerrilla fighters by resisting the British authorities in Nova Scotia. Fighting to prevent the destruction of Acadian homes, farms, & the forcible deportation of thousands. This book tells the tragic well-known story of the 1755 Expulsion of the Acadians.

Author : Arthur G. Sir Doughty
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547199113

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The Acadian Exiles: A Chronicle of the Land of Evangeline by Arthur G. Sir Doughty Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Acadian Exiles: A Chronicle of the Land of Evangeline" by Arthur G. Sir Doughty. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Dudley LeBlanc
Publisher : Lafayette, La. : Tribune Publishing Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Acadiana
ISBN : LCCN:98163374

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The True Story of the Acadians by Dudley LeBlanc Pdf

"Acadia" was founded in what is now Nova Scotia. It also covered areas of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and Maine.

Author : Andrew Hill Clark
Publisher : Madison : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015018619919

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Acadia by Andrew Hill Clark Pdf

Author : Philip Henry Smith
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : General Microfilm Company
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Acadia
ISBN : UOM:39015027949026

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Acadia by Philip Henry Smith Pdf

Author : Thomas B. Akins
Publisher : Cottonport, La.: Polyanthos, 1972 printing.
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Acadia
ISBN : UOM:39015012272418

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Acadia and Nova Scotia by Thomas B. Akins Pdf

Author : N.E.S. Griffiths
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0773526994

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From Migrant to Acadian by N.E.S. Griffiths Pdf

Despite their position between warring French and British empires, European settlers in the Maritimes eventually developed from a migrant community into a distinctive Acadian society. From Migrant to Acadian is a comprehensive narrative history of how the Acadian community came into being. Acadian culture not only survived, despite attempts to extinguish it, but developed into a complex society with a unique identity and traditions that still exist in present day Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.