Notes on Acadian Genealogy
Author | : Thomas Joseph Arceneaux |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 7 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Acadians |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Thomas Joseph Arceneaux |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 7 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Acadians |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Louis Benoit |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Placide Gaudet |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1906* |
Genre | : Acadians |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Placide Gaudet |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1997-07-01 |
Genre | : Acadians |
ISBN | : 9781886560031 |
Acadia primarily covered what are now the provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.
Author | : Timothy Hebert |
Publisher | : Center for L Siana |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Naomi E.S. Griffiths |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1992-03-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0773563202 |
In 1600 there were no such people as the Acadians; by 1700 the Acadians, who numbered almost 2,000, lived in an area now covered by northern Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and the southern Gaspé region of Quebec. While most of their ancestors had come to live there from France, a number had arrived from Scotland and England. Their relations with the original inhabitants of the region, the Micmac and Malecite peoples, were generally peaceful. In 1713 the Treaty of Utrecht recognized the Acadian community and gave their territory -- on the frontier between New England and New France -- to Great Britain. During the next forty years the Acadians continued to prosper and to develop their political life and distinctive culture. The deportation of 1755, however, exiled the majority of Acadians to other British colonies in North America. Some went on from their original destination to England, France, or Santo Domingo; many of those who arrived in France continued on to Louisiana; some Acadians eventually returned to Nova Scotia, but not to the lands they once held. The deportation, however, did not destroy the Acadian community. In spite of a horrific death toll, nine years of proscription, and the forfeiture of property and political rights, the Acadians continued to be part of Nova Scotia. The communal existence they were able to sustain, Griffiths shows, formed the basis for the recovery of Acadian society when, in 1764, they were again permitted to own land in the colony. Instead of destroying the Acadian community, the deportation proved to be a source of power for the formation of Acadian identity in the nineteenth century. By placing Acadian history in the context of North American and European realities, Griffiths removes it from the realms of folklore and partisan political interpretation. She brings into play the current historiographical concerns about the development of the trans-Atlantic world of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, considerably sharpening our focus on this period of North American history.
Author | : John Mack Faragher |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 609 |
Release | : 2006-02-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393242439 |
"Altogether superb: an accessible, fluent account that advances scholarship while building a worthy memorial to the victims of two and a half centuries past." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme" to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French") from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable families, and driving many into forests where they waged a desperate guerrilla resistance. The right of neutrality; to live in peace from the imperial wars waged between France and England; had been one of the founding values of Acadia; its settlers traded and intermarried freely with native Mikmaq Indians and English Protestants alike. But the Acadians' refusal to swear unconditional allegiance to the British Crown in the mid-eighteenth century gave New Englanders, who had long coveted Nova Scotia's fertile farmland, pretense enough to launch a campaign of ethnic cleansing on a massive scale. John Mack Faragher draws on original research to weave 150 years of history into a gripping narrative of both the civilization of Acadia and the British plot to destroy it.
Author | : Michael B. Melanson |
Publisher | : Lanesville Pub. |
Total Pages | : 1066 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : |
Melanson-Melançon: The Genealogy of an Acadian and Cajun Family documents the Melanson, Melançon and Melancon descendants of brothers Pierre and Charles Mellanson from their arrival in Acadia (today, Nova Scotia) in 1657 through the nineteenth and into the early twentieth centuries.
Author | : Timothy Hebert |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Acadians |
ISBN | : 9781450566346 |
Assists people of Cajun descent in doing genealogical research, going back through the Exile of the 1700s to the Acadians of Canada.
Author | : Geoffrey Plank |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2018-05-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812207106 |
The former French colony of Acadia—permanently renamed Nova Scotia by the British when they began an ambitious occupation of the territory in 1710—witnessed one of the bitterest struggles in the British empire. Whereas in its other North American colonies Britain assumed it could garner the sympathies of fellow Europeans against the native peoples, in Nova Scotia nothing was further from the truth. The Mi'kmaq, the native local population, and the Acadians, descendants of the original French settlers, had coexisted for more than a hundred years prior to the British conquest, and their friendships, family ties, common Catholic religion, and commercial relationships proved resistant to British-enforced change. Unable to seize satisfactory political control over the region, despite numerous efforts at separating the Acadians and Mi'kmaq, the authorities took drastic steps in the 1750s, forcibly deporting the Acadians to other British colonies and systematically decimating the remaining native population. The story of the removal of the Acadians, some of whose descendants are the Cajuns of Louisiana, and the subsequent oppression of the Mi'kmaq has never been completely told. In this first comprehensive history of the events leading up to the ultimate break-up of Nova Scotian society, Geoffrey Plank skillfully unravels the complex relationships of all of the groups involved, establishing the strong bonds between the Mi'kmaq and Acadians as well as the frustration of the British administrators that led to the Acadian removal, culminating in one of the most infamous events in North American history.