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Sep 4, 2013 · Back in Nova Scotia, the vacated Acadian lands were soon occupied by settlers from New England. When the Acadians were finally allowed to return after 1764, they settled far from their old homes, in St Mary's Bay , Chéticamp , Cape Breton, Prince Edward Island and the north and east of present-day New Brunswick .
The Expulsion of the Acadians [b] was the forced removal between 1755 and 1764 by Britain of inhabitants of the North American region historically known as Acadia. It included the modern Canadian Maritime provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, along with the U.S. state of Maine. [c] The Expulsion occurred during the ...
- August 10, 1755 – July 11, 1764
The year 2005 marked the 250th anniversary of the beginning of the deportation of the Acadians from Nova Scotia and adjacent areas to points around the Atlantic rim. A defining moment in the history of the Acadian people, the deportation also changed irrevocably the human geography of what is today Canada’s Maritime Provinces.
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At the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians, there have been two escapes from two forts located each side of the Missaguash River, which makes the boundary between nova Scotia and New Brunswick. One was from Fort Lawrence, located in Nova Scotia, on route 104 or the Trans Canada Highway, four kilometers west of the limit of the town of Amherst.
The defining moment in the history of the Acadian French in Atlantic Canada is, and always will be, their expulsion from Nova Scotia — an eviction and banishment that began in the autumn of 1755 and continued for several years thereafter. The Acadians were the first European settlers in Nova Scotia, brought over from France in the years after ...
