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	Acadian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 2003, at the request of Acadian representatives, a proclamation was issued in the name of Queen Elizabeth II, acting as the Canadian monarch, officially acknowledging the deportation and establishing July 28 as a day of commemoration.
		The flag of Acadians in Louisiana, known as Cajuns, was designed by Thomas J. Arceneaux of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, and adopted by the Louisiana legislature as the official emblem of the Acadiana region in 1974.
		A group of New England Acadians attending Le Congrès Mondial Acadien in Nova Scotia in 2004, endorsed a design for a New England Acadian flag by William Cork, and are advocating for its wider acceptance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Acadians (1231 words)

	Seven Years War - Expulsion of the Acadians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		It is no part of this narrative to sit in judgment or to debate whether the forcible expatriation of the Acadians was a necessary measure or a justifiable act of war.
		The proceedings in connection with the expulsion were carried on simultaneously in different parts of the province ; and the circumstances varied according to the temper or situation of the people.
		The land of the Acadians was a solitude.
	www2.marianopolis.edu /quebechistory/encyclopedia/SevenYearsWar-ExpulsionoftheAcadians.htm (4208 words)

	Great Upheaval - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Upheaval (le Grand Dérangement), also known as the Great Expulsion, The Deportation or the Acadian Expulsion, was the forced population transfer or ethnic cleansing of the Acadian population from Nova Scotia between 1755 and 1763, ordered by British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council.
		The Acadians were forced to swear an oath in 1730 giving their allegiance to the British crown but with a caveat that they would not be required to bear arms against the French or First Nations.
		Spanish authorities welcomed the Catholic Acadians as settlers, first in areas along the Mississippi River, then later in the Atchafalaya Basin and in the prairie lands to the west, a region later renamed Acadiana.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Upheaval (477 words)

	Acadians - The Kids' Site of Canadian Settlement - Library and Archives Canada
		Beginning in 1755, British soldiers went from town to town, tricking the Acadians into gathering in one place, where they were imprisoned.
		The Acadians were sent to British colonies along the Atlantic coast: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Virginia.
		Some of the Acadians had managed to escape the soldiers by hiding in the woods.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /settlement/kids/021013-2000.7-e.html (171 words)

	The Deportation of the Acadians
		The Acadians initially refused to recognize British rule, wanting to keep their religious freedom and not wanting to be obliged to bears arms in the event of war.
		Not trusting the Acadians, whom he believed were in cahoots with Natives, he threatened them with deportation to France if they refused to take the oath of allegiance to the British Crown, despite their status as a politically and commercially neutral people, both in terms of the British and the French.
		The Acadians are the descendants of the first French colonists who settled in what are today the Maritime provinces, and they developed a cultural independence that is recognized to this day.
	www.histori.ca /peace/page.do?pageID=275 (584 words)

	Musée acadien de l'Université de Moncton - Acadians' history
		From 1713 to 1755, the Acadian population grew rapidly.
		Approximately 7,000 Acadians were deported from the Bay of Fundy region in 1755; 3,500 from the Île Saint-Jean in 1758 and several hundred more during the next few years.
		They, along with the Acadians who had managed to escape deportation, had to go and live in other areas, since their former lands were now occupied by English settlers.
	www.umoncton.ca /maum/Histoire_an.html (1500 words)

	The Acadian Odyssey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Amongst these are: a common experience shared by the first settlers; an independent spirit principally the result of having been left to themselves by their mother country; a common language and religion that were shared with only a small number of those other settlers who were also discovering the "New World".
		All Acadians, no matter where they live today, see the "great upheaval", or the deportation as the ultimate factor of their common identity.
		Acadians in Exile 1755-1762 - A look at the deportation, and the conditions during exile.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /acadian/english/toce/toce.htm (240 words)

	History of Nova Scotia; Acadia, Bk.1, 1755: The Deportation of the Acadians; Part 6; Ch. 17, The Wanderings of the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Directly the Acadians disembarked at the various ports of the English colonies, they attempted to carry out plans to get back to their beloved "Acadie." We see that in July of 1756, within months of their deportation that a number of them were retained at Boston.
		Lawrence, at whose feet the decision to deport the Acadian population must be laid, died during October of 1760.
		Thus the settlement of the Acadians within the province of Nova Scotia began in 1768 and was to continue through the 1770s.
	www.blupete.com /Hist/NovaScotiaBk1/Part6/Ch17.htm (1980 words)

	ACADIAN SPIRIT: The Acadian Expulsion
		The Acadians were told that their lands, goods, and chattels were to be forfeited to the Crown.
		The expulsion continued over the next eight years as small groups of Acadians were captured or gave themselves up to follow family and friends into exile.
		Although much had changed for the Acadians since 1755, what remained the same was their determination and perseverance to survive as a people, with a distinct identity and heritage, language and culture.
	www.whitepinepictures.com /seeds/i/6/sidebar.html (880 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - The Expulsion of the Acadians
		The French Acadians desired to live a peaceful life, but their location to the south of the Gulf of St Lawrence, the gateway to Canada, and to the north of the New England colonies, doomed them to be the occupants of a battlefield contested by the armies of Great Powers.
		With the French Acadians expelled, the emptied land was left to the British settlers.
		Evangeline is a symbol for Acadians everywhere of their ordeal and a reminder to all of the cruelties that lie in every nation's history.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A2459595 (1034 words)

	Apology for Acadian Expulsion
		No matter that the Acadians were not the enemy, but a peaceable group that had proven its neutrality over several generations.
		The tenuous hold that Acadians have had on their rights of citizenship ever since the deportation is the principal reason for their current situation.
		And, about 10 years ago, an Acadian lawyer from Louisiana launched a request for an apology from the British Crown after his children started asking questions he could not answer, such as why their ancestors were treated like criminals.
	personal.nbnet.nb.ca /rosellam/apology_crown.html (805 words)

	THE FIRST EXPULSION OF THE ACADIANS OF SOUTHERN NOVA SCOTIA - 1756
		Since the Acadians who lived in the Cape Sable region, which comprised before their Expulsion the counties of Shelburne and Yarmouth, were not sent into exile in 1755 with those of Port Royal and of Grand Pré, some people are under the impression that they were never expelled.
		A certain number of Acadians from Port Royal and the Minas region, having heard that these Acadians had been left alone, came down through the forest to take refuge in what they thought might be a safe haven.
		I want to note, though, that it is a fact that the Acadians had little to complain with regard to the Government of Massachusetts, except for the orders that oftentimes was given to separate from one another the members of the same family.
	www.museeacadien.ca /english/archives/articles/31.htm (922 words)

	The Government of Canada Commemorates the Expulsion of the Acadians
		On July 28, 1755, shortly after the Acadians refused to take an unqualified oath of allegiance to the British, the Nova Scotia Council decided to disperse them among the Anglo-American Colonies, where it was anticipated that they would be assimilated.
		Many Acadians died due to overcrowding and disease en route to the colonies or after their arrival in destination seaports.
		Beaubassin was a major Acadian settlement founded between 1671 and 1672 on the Isthmus of Chignecto, a pivotal place in the 17th- and 18th-century North American geopolitical struggle between the British and French empires.
	news.gc.ca /cfmx/view/en/index.jsp?articleid=161689 (511 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Acadians
		Acadians are the original French people who settled the areas now called Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and P.E.I. starting in the early 17th century.
		The Acadians were allowed to return to Nova Scotia at the end of the French and Indian War in 1764.
		Acadian groups, such as the Société Nationale de l'Acadie (SNA), who consider the 1755 deportation a form of genocide, have sought apologies from the Queen.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/acadians (600 words)

	Acadian Genealogy Homepage; Acadian-Cajun History by Earl J. Comeaux! (#1)
		The expulsion of the Acadians from Nova Scotia (Acadia) by the British followed these series of wars between the British and French in which the British were the victors and, as the spoils of war, took possession of Nova Scotia.
		During the wars, the Acadians found their homeland a battlefield between the two warring powers, and the were victims of numerous raids by both sides.
		Under the treaty, the Acadians were granted the option of remaining on their land with religious freedom, or leaving Acadia and forfeiting their land.
	www.acadian.org /comeaux.html (2538 words)

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		After the expulsion, the tidal marshes at the base of Fort Edward were dyked turned into farmland, and today the location of the expulsion site is well inland and located at the foot of King Street (Windsor), N.S..
		Saturday December 20 - 120 Acadians were deported on the scooner RACEHORSE and 112 on the scooner Ranger, for a total of 732 that were embarked on the wintry nights of December, 1755 from Grand Pre.
		The Acadians had regarded themselves as prisoners of war and were entitled to be supported as such, but the authorities would not accept this because it would be their responsibility to care for them.
	www.landrystuff.com /ExpulsionDate1.html (2022 words)

	America's forgotten atrocity - Salon
		Since the Acadians could not be trusted to become loyal British subjects, they were to be driven out by fire and sword, and their lands resettled by English-speaking Protestants.
		As momentous as the expulsion of the Acadians looks now, it should be said that no colonial authority ever suggested genocide, and in the event very few Acadians were deliberately killed (although many died as a result of the expulsion).
		Some Acadians would return to Nova Scotia years later, after the British had won the Seven Years' War decisively and the world was not anxious to dwell on the traumatic events of 1755.
	dir.salon.com /story/books/int/2005/03/01/faragher/?pn=2 (1091 words)

	The expulsion of the Acadians
		As the hostility of the Acadians to British rule continued unabated, and as their presence endangered the security of the province, it was resolved to remove them and endeavor to replace them by settlers loyal to the British government.
		Though some of them were actively hostile to the English, the bulk of the people were quiet, industrious, and inoffensive, and the extent of their crime was that they refused to take an oath that would oblige them to bear arms against their countrymen.
		The expulsion was one of those instances in which, it being difficult to distinguish between the sheep and the wolves, they are made to suffer together.
	www.publicbookshelf.com /public_html/The_Great_Republic_By_the_Master_Historians_Vol_I/expulsion_fa.html (730 words)

	When French Settlers Were the Victims of Ethnic Cleansing in North America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		After the war many of the surviving Acadians returned to the Maritimes, but not to their old farms on the Bay of Fundy, which in the meantime had been granted to English-speaking, Protestant settlers.
		In the United States the history of the Acadian expulsion is known—if known at all—through Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "Evangeline," which impressed several generations of Americans with its tale of Acadian suffering and survival.
		New Englanders were the principal schemers and beneficiaries Acadian removal, making this as much a part of the history of American expansion as the western movement of settlers beyond the Appalachians and across the Mississippi, a movement that also involved the removal of many peoples.
	hnn.us /articles/11204.html (1016 words)

	Evangeline Trail Tourism Association :: Nova Scotia
		The lives of the Acadians were filled with culture, a strong sense of community and a devotion to the land they loved.
		On September 5, 1755, the heads of Acadian families were assembled in the church of "St. Charles" in Grand Pré, to advise them that they and their families were to be deported and their lands confiscated.
		The "Expulsion of the Acadians" remains for all time the most tragic occurrence in Canada's history and part of our local heritage.
	www.evangelinetrail.com /evangeline.html (932 words)

	Expulsion of the Acadians and the Boston States Migrations
		The map of the Acadian expulsion in the video provides additional explanations and illustrations of the drama and trauma of these events.
		Acadians taken to England were prisoners and petitioned the English king to go to France.
		The expulsion, dispersion, separation of families via the high seas is a drama of tearing people away from their families and land.
	bostonstates.rootsweb.com /AlbertHamel.htm (615 words)

	Acadian Expulsion
		When the Acadians steadfastly refused to take the oath, all but about 2000 of them were summarily separated from their families and all were expelled.
		France's problems dealing with the Acadians isn't new information, but the possibility of the French expelling them as a result of their rebellious behavior is recently disclosed knowledge.
		Ironically, this Acadian controversy comes at a time when a movement is building to ask Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britian to pay compensation to the ancestors of the displaced Acadians.
	www.mainewriter.com /articles/Acadian-Expulsion.htm (570 words)

	Spero News: A Great and Noble Scheme
		Under unambiguous British rule this position became more difficult to manage, but it was not something the Acadians could simply give up—it was an essential part of the conception they had of themselves, part of their identity.
		Though Acadians were not involved, they were a target of opportunity for revenge-minded Yankees; soon thereafter, the seeds were sown for a “final solution” to the French problem.
		Faragher’s original contribution is his insistence that the Acadian expulsion must be seen as part of American history.
	www.speroforum.com /site/print.asp?idarticle=1281 (796 words)

	ACADIAN EXPULSION FROM NOVA SCOTIA: July 28, 1755
		In early 1755 the Acadian Deputies were summoned to Halifax by Governor Lawrence and ordered to swear an oath of allegiance to the British Crown.
		Some of the Acadians tried to escape and were aided and protected by them to the best of their ability.
		Many Acadians went into hiding among the Mi'kmaq and remained with them until the British and French ended their hostilities in 1763.
	www.danielnpaul.com /AcadienExpulsion-1755.html (1012 words)

	The Ships of the Acadian Expulsion by Dr. Don Landry
		As the Acadians exiled to Pennsylvania recalled: "we were so crowded on the transport vessels, that we had not room even for all our bodies to lay down at once, and consequently were prevented from carrying with us proper necessities".
		In order to hasten the task of deporting the Acadians, the ships were overloaded, and to make room for even more, the Acadians were forced to leave practically all of their goods on shore, where they were found still lying on the shore by the English settlers who came six years later.
		This was to punish the Acadians for participating in the battle with the English at Fort Beausejour.
	www.acadian-cajun.com /landryships.htm (11481 words)

	ACADIAN SPIRIT: Interactive Quiz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		When the rival empires of France and Britain were fighting over their North American colonies, the British Expulsion of the Acadians in 1755 took place because the Acadians wanted to remain loyal to their native France.
		In 1755, the Acadians were given a final ultimatum by the British colonists: either they take the oath of allegiance to the British Crown or they would face expulsion from the colony.
		As a result, nearly 10,000 Acadians of a total population of 15,000 were deported and scattered among Britain's Thirteen Colonies along the Atlantic coast.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /seeds/seeds/series1/episode-0218/quiz1.html (187 words)

	Acadian Genealogy Homepage; Queen's Apology to Acadians
		FREDERICTON, New Brunswick (CP) - Acadians in the Maritimes are celebrating a decision by the federal government to issue a proclamation acknowledging the wrongs done to their ancestors during the expulsions of the 18th century.
		The expulsion, which came to be known as le grand dérangement, split apart many families, and as many as half of those deported died from disease, malnutrition or exposure, according to Carl Brasseaux, a noted Acadian historian at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette.
		Acadians were forced to leave after refusing to swear allegiance to the English.
	www.acadian.org /apology.html (2848 words)

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