The first victims of the move to drive out the French were not even in Canada – but a peaceful population of Acadians in Nova Scotia who refused to swear an oath to the English King. In the late ...
but you are not to attempt this expulsion without His Majesty's positive order." Nothing happened for ten years, and by 1730, the Acadian population had doubled. Philipps wrote that "they ...
On the eve of a war that will engulf the world the British government agrees with a plan to extinguish a people In 1755 English colonial officials forcibly expel close to 10000 Frenchspeaking ...
Zachary Richard co-produced and narrated this award-winning LPB documentary which tells the story of the Acadian people from ... to Nova Scotia, their expulsion by the British and their eventual ...