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A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland

Author : John Mack Faragher
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393242439
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland written by John Mack Faragher and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006-02-17 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Altogether superb; 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.

The History of the Acadians of Louisiana

Author : Zachary Richard
Publisher : University of Louisiana
ISBN 13 : 9781935754299
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (542 download)

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Download or read book The History of the Acadians of Louisiana written by Zachary Richard and published by University of Louisiana. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Studies the evolution of the Acadian community in Louisiana and furnishes a portrait of contemporary Acadian/Cajun culture through its social traditions and artistic expression"--Amazon.com.

The Acadian Diaspora

Author : Christopher Hodson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199876460
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The Acadian Diaspora written by Christopher Hodson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Contexts of Acadian History, 1686-1784

Author : Naomi E.S. Griffiths
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773563202
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis Contexts of Acadian History, 1686-1784 by : Naomi E.S. Griffiths

Download or read book Contexts of Acadian History, 1686-1784 written by Naomi E.S. Griffiths and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1992-03-16 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

History of the Acadians

Author : Bona Arsenault
Publisher : Saint-Laurent, Québec : Fides
ISBN 13 : 9782762117455
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book History of the Acadians written by Bona Arsenault and published by Saint-Laurent, Québec : Fides. This book was released on 1994 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cajuns

Author : Dean W. Jobb
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470739614
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Cajuns written by Dean W. Jobb and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-01-14 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the darkest events in Canadian history is replete with the drama of war, politics and untold human suffering. Starting in 1755, 10,000 people of French ancestry were expelled from their homes along Canada's east coast by a tyrannical British governor with the complicity of American sympathizers. While some Acadians returned home to try to evade capture and forge a living, others made their way to the Spanish colony of Louisiana, where they farmed and fished and began the vibrant "Cajun" culture that is renowned around the world. Award-winning author Dean Jobb has written a dramatic and compelling account of "Le grand derangement" -- the event that was immortalized in Longfellow's famous poem "Evangeline." Jobb brings a cast of characters to life so vividly that the reader is immediately captured by their stories. The richness of detail is remarkable. The quality of writing is cinematic. The year 2005 marks the 250th anniversary of the expulsion. This book is a bridge across the centuries for the descendants of a founding people of this nation, whose courage and resourcefulness still resonate in modern-day Acadie.

The Acadians of Nova Scotia

Author : Sally Ross
Publisher : Halifax, N.S. : Nimbus
ISBN 13 : 9781551090122
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Acadians of Nova Scotia written by Sally Ross and published by Halifax, N.S. : Nimbus. This book was released on 1992 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Acadian Driftwood

Author : Tyler LeBlanc
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781773101187
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Acadian Driftwood written by Tyler LeBlanc and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Acadie Then and Now

Author : Warren A. Perrin
Publisher : Andrepont Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780976892731
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Acadie Then and Now written by Warren A. Perrin and published by Andrepont Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2014-08-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acadie Then and Now: A People's History is an international collection of articles from 50 authors that chronicles the historical and contemporary realities of the Acadian and Cajun people worldwide. In 1605, French colonists settled Acadie (today Nova Scotia, Canada) and for the next 150 years developed a strong and unique Acadian culture. In 1755, the British conducted forced deportations of the Acadians rendering thousands homeless, and for the next 60 years these exiles migrated to seaports along the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, eventually settling in new lands. This tragic upheaval did not succeed in extinguishing the Acadians, but instead planted the seeds of many new Acadies, where today their fascinating culture still thrives. This collection includes 65 articles on the Acadians and Cajuns living today in the American states of Louisiana, Texas, and Maine, in the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, and Quebec, and in the French regions of Poitou, Belle-Ile-en-Mer, and St-Pierre et Miquelon.

History of the Acadians

Author : Bona Arsenault
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book History of the Acadians written by Bona Arsenault and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Acadians

Author : James Laxer
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385672896
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book The Acadians written by James Laxer and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evocative and beautifully written history of some of Canada’s earliest settlers, and their search for a definitive home. In 1604, a small group of migrants fled political turmoil and famine in France to start a new colony on Canada’s east coast. Their roughly demarcated territory included what are now Canada’s Maritime provinces, land that was fought over by the British and French empires until the Acadians were finally expelled in 1755. Their diaspora persists to this day. The Acadians is the definitive history of a little-known part of the North American past, and the quintessential story of a people in search of their identity. In the absence of a state, what defines an Acadian is elusive and while today’s Acadian community centred in New Brunswick is more confident than ever, it is entering a contentious debate about its future. James Laxer’s compelling book brilliantly explores one of Canada’s oldest and most distinct cultural groups, and shows how their complex, often tragic history reflects the larger problems facing Canada and the world today.

The Founding of New Acadia

Author : Carl A. Brasseaux
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807141632
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book The Founding of New Acadia written by Carl A. Brasseaux and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The True Story of the Acadians, 90th Anniversary Edition

Author : Dudley J. Le Blanc
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983600886
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The True Story of the Acadians, 90th Anniversary Edition written by Dudley J. Le Blanc and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE TRUE STORY OF THE ACADIANS, 90th ANNIVERSARY EDITION by award-winning author M. M. Le Blanc, revising and enhancing the original 1927 book by her grandfather, renowned Acadian historian Louisiana Senator Dudley J. Le Blanc, the first non-fiction book about the Acadian Deportation by a direct descendent of Acadian survivors in both maternal and paternal lines. Original cover art from 1927 edition, complete Bibliography, charts and tables of deported Acadians, ship passenger lists, 6 Appendices including historical details of how Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the poem "Evangeline," updated sources, new Endnotes, and more! 272 pages. Softcover. Published by BizEntine Press.

From Migrant to Acadian

Author : N.E.S. Griffiths
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773526990
Total Pages : 668 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book From Migrant to Acadian written by N.E.S. Griffiths and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Diary of Marie Landry, Acadian Exile, The

Author : Stacy Demoran Allbritton
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781589808652
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Diary of Marie Landry, Acadian Exile, The written by Stacy Demoran Allbritton and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Great Upheaval of 1755, the British forced the Acadians to leave their homes in the Canadian provinces and later the American colonies. Fourteen-year-old Marie Landry joins her family and friends on a mass exodus from Maryland to Louisiana 10 years later, where land awaits them. Along the way, she notes her feelings of despair and hope through candid diary entries.

Acadian to Cajun

Author : Carl A. Brasseaux
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617031113
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Acadian to Cajun written by Carl A. Brasseaux and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1992 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This work serves as a model for compiling ethnohistories of other nonliterate peoples."--BOOK JACKET.

The Contexts of Acadian History, 1686-1784

Author : Naomi Elizabeth Saundaus Griffiths
Publisher : Published for the Centre for Canadian Studies, Mount Allison University by McGill-Queen's University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780773508835
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Contexts of Acadian History, 1686-1784 written by Naomi Elizabeth Saundaus Griffiths and published by Published for the Centre for Canadian Studies, Mount Allison University by McGill-Queen's University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Gasp� 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.