The Expulsion Of The Acadians

Author : John Mack Faragher
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 53,6 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 : Tyler LeBlanc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : Christopher Hodson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : George Frederick Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Acadia
ISBN : 0887900100

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Expulsion of the Acadians by George Frederick Clarke Pdf

Author : George Potter Bible
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Acadians
ISBN : PSU:000007454332

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An Historical Sketch of the Acadians by George Potter Bible Pdf

Author : Dianne Marshall
Publisher : Formac Publishing Company Limited
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,6 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 : N.E.S. Griffiths
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 42,7 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.

Author : Tyler LeBlanc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Acadians
ISBN : 1039510795

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Acadian Driftwood by Tyler LeBlanc Pdf

"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 (Tyler's 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 Acadian 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 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 : Jean-François Mouhot
Publisher : University of Louisiana
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 1935754750

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The Acadian Refugees in France, 1758-1785 by Jean-François Mouhot Pdf

On May 10, 1785, the Bon Papa, a modest three-master of 280 tons, hoisted its sails at Paimboeuf, France, near Nantes, and headed west. On board were thirty-six families whom the owner of the boat had promised to bring to port. The ship, which arrived at its destination on July 29, 1785--after eighty days on the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico waters--was only the first of seven ships carrying nearly 1,600 Acadians to Spain's Louisiana colony. Thirty years, almost to the day, before the arrival of Bon Papa in New Orleans, seven or eight times as many Acadians had embarked on ships from Nova Scotia, Canada. Between July 28 and July 31, 1755, the English governor of the colony, Charles Lawrence, as a prelude to the Seven Years' War, made the decision to expel all inhabitants of French origin within his territory. Many of the exiled Acadians were deported to the American colonies, the Caribbean, Britain, or France. Nearly one-third of those deported died from disease or drownings. Those who did survive the journey often struggled to survive and assimilate in their new communities, even in their motherland of France. This book examines the Acadians while exiled in France. Based on a tremendous amount of primary source research, Mouhot tells their story in great detail, while he also challenges many previous interpretations and understandings of their experiences in their "homeland."

Author : Diane Carmel Léger
Publisher : Nimbus Publishing Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1771087803

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The Lookout Tree by Diane Carmel Léger Pdf

The Acadian Deportation is told through the eyes of twelve-year-old Fidèle, in the new English version of this Hackmatack Award-winning novel by author Diane Carmel Léger. The Lookout Tree, an English translation of the Acadian bestseller La butte à Pétard, is a testament to the will of the Acadian people, determined to not only survive the two decades of the Deportation, but reunite and rebuild afterward.

Author : Naomi E.S. Griffiths
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : Elizabeth Mary McCue
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Acadians
ISBN : WISC:89092456425

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The Expulsion of the Acadians by Elizabeth Mary McCue Pdf

Author : Naomi Elizabeth Saundaus Griffiths
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Acadians
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035150569

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The Acadian Deportation: Deliberate Perfidy Or Cruel Necessity? by Naomi Elizabeth Saundaus Griffiths Pdf

Author : Sally Ross,Alphonse Deveau
Publisher : Nimbus Publishing (CN)
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Dudley J. LeBlanc,Dudley LeBlanc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Acadians
ISBN : PSU:000050641949

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The Acadian Miracle by Dudley J. LeBlanc,Dudley LeBlanc Pdf