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Decorous Dispossession: Legally Extinguishing Acadian Landholding Rights

July 30, 2019 / / 0 Comments
A view of George Street in Halifax by Richard Short in 1759

“Halifax looking down George Street, Nova Scotia 1759” by Richard Short, 1759. Source: Wikimedia Commons

Welcome to the fourth post of our Acadian History Series! Our post this week is by Elizabeth Mancke, CRC in Atlantic Canada Studies at UNB Fredericton, and amazing mentor to many, including myself. In fact, this particular blog post is part of a project that she has been working on for a while with two of her students – myself and Keith Grant (Borealia, now a graduated former student of Elizabeth Mancke). As always, this content is cross-posted on Acadiensis and Borealia; you can find an index to the rest of the series here.

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Wide Angles, Close Quarters: A Human History of the Grand Dérangement

July 23, 2019 / / 1 Comment
Archival image taken by author of a letter written by Joseph Leblanc to his brother

Joseph Leblanc’s 1757 letter to his brother Charles, sent from Liverpool to an unnamed British city.

Welcome to the third post of our Acadian History Series! Our post this week is by Christopher Hodson, historian and associate professor at Bringham Young University, and author of The Acadian Diaspora: An Eighteenth-Century History. This is the third post of a six week series which is also being posted on Acadiensis and Borealia; you can find an index to the rest of the series here. If you would like to hear more about this topic, Dr. Hodson will be joining us for our Pointe Sainte-Anne visiting lecture series the evening August 28th in Fredericton, at Government House.

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Reconciling Chignecto: The Many Stories of Siknikt

July 16, 2019 / / 0 Comments
A map dating from the 1750s which shows the Chignecto Isthmus, and various features including Acadian dykes.

This map, A DRAUGHT of the ISTHMUS which joyns Nova Scotia to the Continent with the Situation of the ENGLISH and FRENCH FORTS & the Adjacent BAYS and RIVERS, was drawn at some point between 1751 and 1755. The sites marked “O” are captioned as: “Dykes levelled by the English from which the Indeans used to Fire at the Vesells as they came up the River Mesiguash” and the villages in red, all Acadian, are indicated as those “burned by the Indeans.” Those villages were burned in September of 1750, when the British took control of the region. (There is also an indescribable image of an Indigenous person shaking hands with a European, behind the cartouche.) This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License. , https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:hx11z5039

Welcome to the second post of our Acadian History Series! Our post this week is by Anne Marie Lane Jonah, historian for Parks Canada and editor of the Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society. This is the second post of a six week series which is also being posted on Acadiensis and Borealia; you can find an index to the rest of the series here. Enjoy!

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