Euclide Chiasson, head of the Socit Nationale des Acadiens, respectfully petitioned Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth to apologize for all the wrongs caused by the deportation of Acadian settlers in 1755.

In January 1990, I prepared a petition and had it delivered to the British Crown. The petition sought a formal apology for their role 267 years ago in the 1755 Deportation of 18,000 Acadians from ...

Port Royal, Grande Pre, Pisiguit and Cobequid were just names of places discovered in Bona Arsenault’s book "Histoire et Genealogie des Acadiens" until a trip to Nova Scotia made them ...

On July 28, 1755, British Governor Charles Lawrence ordered the deportation of all Acadians from Nova Scotia who refused to take an oath of allegiance to Britain. Over the following 13 years, ...

Expulsion of settlers is history to many, Digital access Digital + home delivery. Acadian gives Queen earful over 1755 deportation ...

Transcripts from a diary kept by a young American soldier fighting for the British is giving historians a new twist on the deportation of Acadians from the Maritimes in the 18th century.

In July 1755, British General Edward Braddock's expedition against the French Fort Duquesne, located at the site of what is now Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, had ended in an ambush that was to claim ...

ANNAPOLIS ROYAL, N.S. — About 30 people gathered at the end of Queen’s Wharf in Annapolis Royal on July 28 to remember more ...

“This book is a collection of 65 articles by 55 authors on the Acadians and Cajuns living today in Louisiana, Texas and Maine; in the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince ...

HOUMA -- Finalement. Local residents of French descent praised the Canadian government's acknowledgment Wednesday of the tragic Acadian deportation of 1755.