The Founding Of New Acadia

Author : Carl A. Brasseaux
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807120995

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The Founding of New Acadia by Carl A. Brasseaux Pdf

In this penetrating study, Carl Brasseaux looks beyond long-standing mythology to provide a critical account of early Acadian culture in Louisiana and the reasons for its survival. He convincingly dispels many received notions about the routes Acadians traveled from Nova Scotia to Louisiana, their original settlement sites, and the patterns of their subsequent migrations within the state, and closely examines the relations of Louisiana's Acadians with their black, Spanish, Indian, and Creole neighbors. In adapting to subtropical Louisiana, with its turmoil of alternating French and Spanish regimes, the Acadians exhibited industry, pragmatism, individualism, and the ability to close ranks in the face of a general threat. As Brasseaux reveals, Acadians' cohesiveness and insularity preserved the core elements of their culture and helped them adjust to new physical and social demands.

Author : Carl A. Brasseaux
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Cajuns
ISBN : 0807141631

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The Founding of New Acadia by Carl A. Brasseaux Pdf

Author : Michael S. Martin
Publisher : University of Louisiana
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1946160466

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Rethinking New Acadia by Michael S. Martin Pdf

Rethinking New Acadia presents cutting edge research into and new ways of thinking about the dispersal of the Acadians and their arrival in southwestern Louisiana. This book is required reading for historians, genealogists, and anyone else interested in understanding Le Grande Dérangement more deeply than ever before. Book jacket.

Author : John G. Reid,Maurice Basque,Elizabeth Mancke
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802085385

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The "conquest" of Acadia, 1710 by John G. Reid,Maurice Basque,Elizabeth Mancke Pdf

The conquest of Port-Royal by British forces in 1710 is an intensely revealing episode in the history of northeastern North America. Bringing together multi-layered perspectives, including the conquest's effects on aboriginal inhabitants, Acadians, and New Englanders, and using a variety of methodologies to contextualise the incident in local, regional, and imperial terms, six prominent scholars form new conclusions regarding the events of 1710. The authors show that the processes by which European states sought to legitimate their claims, and the terms on which mutual toleration would be granted or withheld by different peoples living side by side are especially visible in the Nova Scotia that emerged following the conquest. Important on both a local and global scale, The 'Conquest' of Acadia will be a significant contribution to Acadian history, native studies, native rights histories, and the socio-political history of the eighteenth century.

Author : Naomi E.S. Griffiths
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : John Bartlet Brebner
Publisher : New York : B. Franklin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Acadia
ISBN : UOM:49015000109299

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New England's Outpost by John Bartlet Brebner Pdf

Author : John Mack Faragher
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 45,6 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 : 41,5 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 : N.E.S. Griffiths
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Geoffrey Plank
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812207101

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An Unsettled Conquest by Geoffrey Plank Pdf

The former French colony of Acadia—permanently renamed Nova Scotia by the British when they began an ambitious occupation of the territory in 1710—witnessed one of the bitterest struggles in the British empire. Whereas in its other North American colonies Britain assumed it could garner the sympathies of fellow Europeans against the native peoples, in Nova Scotia nothing was further from the truth. The Mi'kmaq, the native local population, and the Acadians, descendants of the original French settlers, had coexisted for more than a hundred years prior to the British conquest, and their friendships, family ties, common Catholic religion, and commercial relationships proved resistant to British-enforced change. Unable to seize satisfactory political control over the region, despite numerous efforts at separating the Acadians and Mi'kmaq, the authorities took drastic steps in the 1750s, forcibly deporting the Acadians to other British colonies and systematically decimating the remaining native population. The story of the removal of the Acadians, some of whose descendants are the Cajuns of Louisiana, and the subsequent oppression of the Mi'kmaq has never been completely told. In this first comprehensive history of the events leading up to the ultimate break-up of Nova Scotian society, Geoffrey Plank skillfully unravels the complex relationships of all of the groups involved, establishing the strong bonds between the Mi'kmaq and Acadians as well as the frustration of the British administrators that led to the Acadian removal, culminating in one of the most infamous events in North American history.

Author : Christopher Hodson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : Philip Henry Smith
Publisher : Cambridge, Mass. : General Microfilm Company
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Acadia
ISBN : UOM:39015027949026

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Acadia by Philip Henry Smith Pdf

Author : Paul Surette,Tantramar Heritage Trust (Organization)
Publisher : Sackville, N.B. : Tantramar Heritage Trust
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Acadians
ISBN : 0968304249

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Atlas of the Acadian Settlement of the Beaubassin, 1660 to 1755 by Paul Surette,Tantramar Heritage Trust (Organization) Pdf

Author : Marc Lescarbot,Henry Percival Biggar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Acadia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025724894

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History of New France by Marc Lescarbot,Henry Percival Biggar Pdf

Author : Jennifer Reid
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780776616599

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Myth, Symbol, and Colonial Encounter by Jennifer Reid Pdf

From the time of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, people of British origin have shared the area of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, traditionally called Acadia, with Eastern Canada's Algonkian-speaking peoples, the Mi'kmaq. This historical analysis of colonial Acadia from the perspective of symbolic and mythic existence will be useful to those interested in Canadian history, native Canadian history, religion in Canada, and history of religion.