Deportation of the Acadians

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Acadia (1754)

The deportation of the Acadians was a historic event that took place shortly after the middle of the 18th century. During these deportation measures, the majority of the European settlers of Acadia were deported by the government of the British colony of Nova Scotia (French: Nouvelle-Écosse , German: Nova Scotia ) to British colonies further south. On the one hand, those Acadians who had previously lived under British control were affected by these reprisals . On the other hand, those Acadian settlers who had settled in areas that had been under French control until 1755 were also subjected to the British coercive measures. On the one hand, this concerned those academics who had settled in what is now the Canadian province of New Brunswick (English New Brunswick , French Nouveau-Brunswick ). Later - after the fall of the fortress Louisbourg - the inhabitants of the two islands Ile Royale (now Cape Breton Island ) and Île Saint-Jean (now Prince Edward Island ) were deported by the victorious British. Only a minority of the Acadians managed to escape into the woods and flee west towards Québec . Of the 14,100 Acadians, 11,500 were deported; a census from 1764 shows 2,600 remaining Acadians in the region.

literature

  • Ingo Kolboom, Roberto Mann: Acadia: a French dream in America . 1st edition. Synchron Wissenschaftsverlag der Authors, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-935025-54-8 (German, French).
  • Robert H. Parry: European colonial empires - world trade and world domination in the 18th century . Ed .: Egidius Schmalzriedt. 1st edition. Kindler Verlag, Munich 1972, ISBN 3-463-13686-4 .
  • Werner Jopp, Adolf Hanle (Hrsg.): Meyer's continents and seas - North America . Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim 1970, ISBN 3-411-01166-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Robert H. Parry: European Colonial Empires - World Trade and World Rule in the 18th Century, 1972, ISBN, 3-463-13686-4, pp. 218-219.
  2. ^ Ingo Kolboom, Roberto Mann: Akadien: a French dream in America, 2005, ISBN 3-935025-54-8 , pp. 103–128.
  3. ^ Arthur G. Doughty: The Acadian Exiles . Binker North, 2020 ( google.de ).