The Expulsion of the Acadians: Why 11,500 People Were Deported From Their Own Farms in 1755
In 1755 British authorities deported the Acadians, a farming people who had lived in the Maritimes for five generations. The oath they would not swear, the order read aloud in the church at Grand Pré, the ships, the deaths, and the long road home.
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