Ms. Maillet is probably best known in Canada for La Sagouine, a one-woman play featuring a plain-talking Acadian cleaning woman, one-time prostitute and fisherman’s wife that premiered in 1971.

Today is the day of Acadian remembrance. It's dedicated to commemoration of the lives lost during deportation of French Islanders. Trump prepares to ease tariffs on Mexico and Canada Ben Stiller ...

From the Indian Removal Act of 1830 to the deportation of Mexican Americans during the Great Depression, Trump can easily find precedents for his policy. None of them ended well.

Between 1755 and 1764, some 11,000 Acadians were forced out of their homes and away from their villages by the conquering British. Thousands died; their homes were given to British settlers.

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The locations of Grand Pré village and Horton Landing have memorial buildings and monuments erected in the 20th century in homage to the Acadian ancestors and their deportation, starting in 1755. The ...

That marks the spot where french acadians were forced on to ships as they were exiled from their homes by the british in 1755. 10-years later, 200 of those deported Acadians arrived near St ...

According to the Acadian Museum in Erath, around 10,000 men, women and children were expelled from Nova Scotia in 1755, which would come to be known as the Acadian Deportation or the Great Upheaval.

In 2003, a representative of Queen Elizabeth II signed a Royal Proclamation that acknowledged the wrongdoings committed in the name of the English Crown during the Acadian deportation of 1755.