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The Acadian Diaspora: An Eighteenth-Century History (Oxford University Press; 2012) 260 pages online review by Kenneth Banks; Jobb, Dean. The Acadians: A People's Story of Exile and Triumph, John Wiley & Sons, 2005 (published in the United States as The Cajuns: A People's Story of Exile and Triumph) [ISBN missing]
The Acadians were originally inclined to tolerate other religions and denominations because some founders were Protestant. [10] The clergy was not particularly prominent and was primarily engaged in evangelizing the Mi'kmaq. Consequently, religious practice was largely a private matter within families due to the dearth of priests. [10]
The Acadians and Mi’kmaq were also successful in the Battle of Bloody Creek (1711). [16] Acadians by Samuel Scott, Annapolis Royal, 1751. During Father Rale's War, the Maliseet raided numerous vessels on the Bay of Fundy while the Mi'kmaq engaged in the Raid on Canso, Nova Scotia (1723). In the latter engagement, the Mi'kmaq were aided by ...
The Acadians are descendants of 17th and 18th-century French settlers from southwestern France, primarily in the region historically known as Occitania. [1] They established communities in Acadia, a northeastern area of North America, encompassing present-day Canadian Maritime Provinces (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island), parts of Québec, and southern Maine.
The people of Chéticamp were known to use two systems for dating years: the Gregorian calendar and another based on extraordinary events, often related to the sea. [6] For example, 1861 was known as "the year of Moses’ wreck" ( raque à Moïse , from the English word "wreck"), referring to the discovery of a shipwreck by sailors near ...
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The Acadians' migration from Canada was spurred by the 1763 Treaty of Paris which ended the war. The treaty terms provided 18 months for unrestrained emigration. Many Acadians moved to the region of the Atakapa in present-day Louisiana, often travelling via the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti). [21]
Acadians refused to pay the school tax and took various steps to repeal the law. [31] Tensions peaked in 1875 in Caraquet during the Louis Mailloux affair, where two people were killed. [31] A compromise was later reached and accepted by Catholics. [31]