Faragher relates, in all its complex, searingly sad details, the story of how the hapless French Acadians were run out of their Nova Scotia homes—a story known to most from Longfellow's Evangeline.

Notes: In this essay, James Kences documents the Great Upheaval or Great Derangement, the forced removal of the French from the Canadian Maritimes in 1755, which occurred just as the British and ...

A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians From Their American Homeland By John Mack Faragher Norton, 592 pp. $28.95 Whatever most Americans know about the ...

Le Grand Réveil Acadien also begins this weekend, on Saturday. Billed as the "Great Acadian Awakening," this weeklong event takes place every five years, and offers a deep dive into Acadian history ...

The author of “Like Snow Before Sun” loves historical fiction. “I love the idea of learning history through fiction,” said Pineville native Marianne Rabalais Sulser in a phone interview from her home ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Francophone Community Garden is inspired by the traditional style of Acadian gardens. (Stephanie Blanchet/Radio-Canada - image ...