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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Dr. Rees remains hopeful that the location of those very first settlements can be found, but enough is known to link Loreauville with a site of the Acadian expulsion in Nova Scotia 2000 miles away.
No Harbour for War documents the active movement in Halifax against the Gulf War of 1991 and the role of war played by Halifax from its founding in 1749 to the Expulsion of the Acadians in 1755 ...