#expulsion of the acadians

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Shrine to Longfellow's "Evangeline" in Acadia,” Brantford Expositor. March 28, 1930. Page 12. --- Memorial Chapel and Statue of Evangeline, at Grand Pre, the locale of Longfellow's well-known poem, "Evangeline." A pilgrimage to this spot, sacred to descendants of the Acadians, will be made this summer by 200 residents of the Teche country, South Louisiana, the district to which the greater number of the Acadians were taken when they were forced to leave their native land in 1775 -(S. N. S..)

[sentientsky]

the brainrot is all-consuming. i'm reading about le grand dérangement, and at this point the only thing my brain is absorbing is the name of local gremlin and babygirl armand iwtv. help

[twistingtreeancestry]

Acadian Day (LA)

While this day is to celebrate the resilience, contribution, and culture of Acadians, it's also Native American Heritage Day, so I'd also like to celebrate and thank the Wabanaki Confederacy, specifically the Mi'kmaq, Penobscot, and Wolastoqey Nations.

Without the Mi'kmaq Nation accepting the French colonizers onto their land and extending a hand of peace and teaching, the French would not have easily survived, if at all.

Thanks to the bravery and resistance of the Penobscot and Wolastoqey Nations, some of the Acadians were able to evade capture, deportation, and death. If not for them, there would have been nothing for the returning Acadians to come home to.

Thanks to all of them, the Acadians were able to settle deep roots that would resound through time.

Wela'lin, Mi'kmaq Nation.

Woliwoni, Penobscot Nation.

Woliwon, Wolastoqey Nation.

We owe more than we could ever repay to you.

⋘ ⋙

In honor of my ancestors who came to Nova Scotia from France and those who left Nova Scotia to France or Louisiana.

|| Paternal Grandfather's Father's Line

Charles Olivier Miquel Guillot (1746 Nova Scotia, CA - 1845 Louisiana, USA) and his wife Madeline Josephe [Boudreaux/Boudrot] Guillot (1744 Nova Scotia, CA - N/A).

Charles' father, Jean Baptiste Guillot (1720 Nova Scotia, CA - 1759 Atlantic Ocean).

Jean's mother, Marguerite [Doiron] Guillot (1669 Nova Scotia, CA - 1759 Nova Scotia, CA).

Marguerite's parents, Jean Doiron (1677 Nova Scotia, CA - 1735 Nova Scotia, CA) and Marie Anne [Trahan] Doiron (1671 Nova Scotia, CA - 1710 Nova Scotia, CA).

Mary Anne's parents, Guillaume Trahan (1611 France - 1682 Nova Scotia, CA) and Madeleine [Brun] Trahan (1645 France - 1700 Nova Scotia, CA).

Madeleine's parents, Vincent Brun (1611 France - 1693 Nova Scotia, CA) and Marie Renee [Breau] Brun (1616 France - 1686 Nova Scotia, CA).

|| Paternal Grandmother's Mother's Line

Silvain Sonnier, Sr. (1736 Nova Scotia, CA - 1801 Louisiana, USA) and his wife Marie Magdeleine [Bourg] Sonnier (1744 Nova Scotia, CA - 1814 Louisiana, USA).

Jean Baptiste Granger (c1741 Nova Scotia - 1842 Louisiana, USA) and his wife Susanne [Cormier] Granger (c1763 Nova Scotia, CA - 1800 Louisiana, USA).

Alexandre Aucoin (1725 Nova Scotia, CA - 1780 France) and his wife Isabelle [Duhon] Aucoin (c1750 Nova Scotia - 1817 Louisiana, USA).

[verifiablebot]

it came up in conversation the other day that while i do know two other cajuns up here in washington, one is an artist that i've met but am not friends with, and the other is a friend but who doesn't seem to have much attachment to the culture

i'd been having somewhat of a cultural crisis for the last several years after moving away from the south in general, but going back home and really learning about acadian history and everything done to us has just opened up all of those complicated feelings about acadiana all over again.

and i realised that i'm really just...alone, here. i have all these thoughts and emotions but no one to talk to about them that really gets it. no one who knows the feeling of being tied by your soul to a place you can't physically be long-term anymore and how hard it is to keep that culture alive in you when you're so far away. it's just me and my books and my teach-yourself-cajun-french cds in my room while i beg my mouth to remember the accent i'm supposed to have without actively thinking about it

[just-a-queer-fanboy]

Called my dad French Canadian I think he might kill me now /j

Well, baise moi I guess

[hetrosjistin]

Cajun History and what that has to do with Palestine

Yo, you reading this? You got opinions about the fucking war in Gaza right now? You from South Louisiana like me? Then you know about the Acadian Exodus, Evangeline, the whole expulsion of the Acadians from Canada?

You ever wonder why the fuck it happened? Cause it obviously wasn't the British throwing all the french out of Canada, not with Quebec just sitting there. (Seriously, this was something that felt super implied by my teachers growing up and I have to wonder why the FUCK the whole alliance with the Wabanaki and the familial ties to the Mi'kmaq were left out of my education, maybe not wonder HARD but it's still there)

It's because the Acadians refused to turn on their Wabanaki Confederate Allies following the french and indian war, specifically the Miꞌkmaq, who the Acadians had a long history of intermarriage with. We were proof that you could integrate, peacefully, with the natives of a place and find common cause, family, and grow together. Everything the people leading Israel have proven they cannot be.

So I don't want to hear ANY shit from ANY Cajun down here about Palestinians except "Free Palestine" because boys and girls, that was our ancestors. That was us once upon a time. We are the descendants of the survivors of Genocide, the ones who refused to turn on others for their own benefit and while we've ALL had shit moments, personally and in our families, since then, that has to be something we stick too.

[thomasthetankieengine]

Awww, what a good first step. You're right to recognize that the United States was formed in blood. Now that you've learned that, you've got a lot more reading to do about the history of ethnic cleansing and settler colonialism. You can pick any of the following topics

Resettlement policy of the Neo-Assyrian Empire

Asiatic Vespers

Roman destruction of Carthage

Roman expulsion of the Jews from Judaea

Mitma

Edict of Expulsion

Baltic Germans

Conquest of the Canary Islands

Alhambra Decree

Russian conquest of Siberia

Plantations of Ireland

Dzungar genocide

Cromwellian conquest of Ireland and Act of Settlement

Expulsion of the Acadians

Chinese conquests of Xinjiang and Tibet

Circassian genocide

Expulsion of the Albanians, 1830–1876 and 1877–1878

Pale of Settlement

Prussian deportations

Herero and Namaqua genocide

Ethnic cleansings during the Balkan Wars

1914 Greek deportations

Armenian genocide

Greek genocide

Bolshevik deportations of the Don Cossacks

Pacification of Libya

1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey

Simele massacre of 1933

Deportation of Soviet Koreans

Population transfer in the Soviet Union

Independent State of Croatia's massacres of Serbs, Jews, and Roma

The Holocaust

Porajmos

Expulsion of Cham Albanians

Partition of India

Istrian–Dalmatian exodus

Jammu Massacre

Exodus of Turks from Bulgaria

Istanbul pogrom

1962 Rajshahi massacres

1964 East Pakistan riots

Arab Belt program

Cambodian genocide

Revival Process

Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

Halabja massacre

1991 Altun Kupri massacre

Palestinian exodus from Kuwait

South Ossetia War

Ossetian–Ingush conflict

Khojaly massacre

Ethnic cleansing during the Bosnian wars

May 1998 riots of Indonesia

Assyrian exodus from Iraq

2008 attacks on Uttar Pradeshi and Bihari migrants in Maharashtra

2010 South Kyrgyzstan ethnic clashes

2013 Myanmar anti-Muslim riots

Yazidi genocide

Rohinyga genocide

War in Tigray

Russian invasion of Ukraine

Blockade of Nagorno-Karbakh

The sooner you divest yourself of the delusion that ANY nation-state arose naturally and was formed easily or bloodlessly, the smarter you'll be. They ain't nothing natural or peaceful about the way that any part of Europe, Africa, or Asia is today.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

New Brunswick Mi’gmaq chiefs sent a letter Wednesday to Université de Moncton president Denis Prud’homme supporting the movement to change the institution’s name.

“Mi’gmaq Chiefs New Brunswick lend their support to the university in their pursuit to change the title, to a name that is more inclusive and less offensive. From the Mi’gmaq perspective, it is simply the right thing to do,” read the letter from Mi’gwame’l Tplu’taqnn Inc. (MTI), an organization representing Mi’gmaq communities in New Brunswick.

The university will be examining the possibility of a name change at the next board of governors meeting in mid-April, in response to a petition launched by Acadian activist Jean-Marie Nadeau in March.

“With the Université de Moncton, it’s named after (Robert Monckton) who was involved in the expulsion of the Acadians,” Pabineau First Nation Chief Terry Richardson told Global News in an interview on Thursday. [...]

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 6.16 (before 1910)

632 – Yazdegerd III ascends the throne as king (shah) of the Persian Empire. He becomes the last ruler of the Sasanian dynasty (modern Iran). 1407 – Ming–Hồ War: Retired King Hồ Quý Ly and his son King Hồ Hán Thương of Hồ dynasty are captured by the Ming armies. 1487 – Battle of Stoke Field: King Henry VII of England defeats the leaders of a Yorkist rebellion in the final engagement of the Wars of the Roses. 1632 – The Plymouth Company granted a land patent to Thomas Purchase, the first settler of Pejepscot, Maine, settling at the site of Fort Andross. 1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: New England colonial troops under the command of William Pepperrell capture the Fortress of Louisbourg in Louisbourg, New France (Old Style date). 1746 – War of the Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza. 1755 – French and Indian War: The French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians. 1760 – French and Indian War: Robert Rogers and his Rangers surprise French held Fort Sainte Thérèse on the Richelieu River near Lake Champlain. The fort is raided and burned. 1779 – American Revolutionary War: Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins. 1795 – French Revolutionary Wars: In what became known as Cornwallis's Retreat, a British Royal Navy squadron led by Vice Admiral William Cornwallis strongly resists a much larger French Navy force and withdraws largely intact, setting up the French Navy defeat at the Battle of Groix six days later. 1811 – Survivors of an attack the previous day by Tla-o-qui-aht on board the Pacific Fur Company's ship Tonquin, intentionally detonate a powder magazine on the ship, destroying it and killing about 100 attackers. 1815 – Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before the Battle of Waterloo. 1819 – A major earthquake strikes the Kutch district of western India, killing over 1,543 people and raising a 6-metre-high (20 ft), 6-kilometre-wide (3.7 mi), ridge, extending for at least 80 kilometres (50 mi), that was known as the Allah Bund ("Dam of God"). 1824 – A meeting at Old Slaughter's coffee house in London leads to the formation of what is now the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA). 1836 – The formation of the London Working Men's Association gives rise to the Chartist Movement. 1846 – The Papal conclave of 1846 elects Pope Pius IX, beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy. 1858 – Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois. 1871 – The Universities Tests Act 1871 allows students to enter the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology). 1883 – The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England, kills 183 children. 1884 – The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park. 1897 – A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later. 1903 – The Ford Motor Company is incorporated. 1903 – Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage. 1904 – Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland. 1904 – Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".

[theiceandbones]

It really truly depresses me that I can find so little sources on Acadians in their golden age while every other article written on them is about the expulsion because these are my people and I want everyone to move away from Evangeline and tragedy. But everything, every record, was destroyed by the British, so what the world knows is a tale written by a man who never even came here.

[hugh-lauries-bald-spot]

re: Acadian: it's been a decade+ since I learned this stuff in history classes, but if memory serves, basically Acadian culture developed out of French settlements in the Maritime provinces ("Acadia" being a colony at one point). so, distinct from Québécois culture. and as governmental rule changed with English domination, there was the Great Expulsion, where tons of Acadians were forceably resettled. a good many ended up in Louisiana, and "Cajun" comes from the mixing of Creoles and les Acadiens (highlighting so you can see the sonic morphology). there are still Acadian communities in the Maritimes tho (I think mostly in New Brunswick?)

whatever people are saying about your accent may well be BS, but the "3 different answers" to what Acadian even is may be because Acadian culture has these diverging histories

ahhh merci merci!! thats interesting and much more clear cause no matter how many sites i read i was basically given "its sorta france 400 years ago, the maritimes now, and quebecish" and those are such wildly different accents that i was even more lost than before! i've never been to the maritime provinces, but i hear if you only speak quebecois french good fucking luck speaking acadian.

and i was looking at different sort of pronunciation differences in acadian french (mainly the 'ou' versus 'o' sounds) and whatever the bally hell ive got going on and ive concluded: yeah the person who told me i speak acadian french didnt know what it meant or not fully

most people say my french isnt distinctly from anywhere, theres a bit of mix and match pronunciation from france and quebec and my beloved anglicismes <3 it definitely leans more quebecois tho

thank you for taking the time to explain that, its very helpful /gen!!

[bnprime]

french immersion

so when i was a kid in canada, my twin sister and i were in french immersion. and now, as an adult in the usa, my sister’s children are in french immersion there. what fun. anyway, one interesting thing is how different history classes are. in canada we learned about french canadian history. new france. quebec. the acadian colonies and the acadian expulsion. my sisters kids are learning french history. charlemagne. wild, yo.

[steveskafte]

I find it fascinating how brutal battles can be fought over nondescript bits of land that no one thinks twice of now. There were two such here on unrelated occasions, 1711 and 1757. The first was during Queen Anne's War, when occupying British forces led by Captain Pigeon lost sixteen men to local natives. Pigeon was captured and paid a ransom for his own release. Forty-six years later, a second battle came on the heels of the Acadian Expulsion. French fighters hiding out in the forest spotted British soldiers cutting firewood. They killed one man and captured others. It's been pretty peaceful since.

Bloody Creek first appears as an inlet from the Annapolis River, mostly level and calm for the early kilometres of farmland. It isn't long before the first bridge appears, a weather-beaten wooden trestle built by the long-defunct Dominion Atlantic Railway. It lingers now as part of the local trail system. A slow climb starts just after a concrete crossing at Highway 201, then comes the towering overpass of Highway 101. As always, no traffic spots me far below, just a secret soul clambering rocks. There are couple private spans, but the last public bridge puts off until high in the hills of West Dalhousie. Part of the sleepy backwoods Neaves Road, passing by Dalhousie Lake dam.

On an inexplicable note, Canadian cartography convention insists calling nothing a "creek". So my historic maps call this "Bloody Creek Stream" and my modern ones call it "Bloody Creek Brook". But there's zero chance you'll hear either of those from a local. It makes a long and circuitous journey up South Mountain, and I've hiked bits and pieces up or downstream of all these crossings through the years. Taking along the battle that's only in my mind these days, between all I feel and find within and without me. It's one you can't win, just like no one really did all those years ago. But sometimes fighting is inevitable in the meantime.

December 16, 2024 Bloody Creek, Nova Scotia

Year 18, Day 6245 of my daily journal.

[twistingtreeancestry]

Day of Commemoration for the Acadian Expulsion

Image Description: A black and white portrait of the Ovillier Guillot and Eve Vice family, circa the early-to-mid 1900s. Top (children), left to right: Eunice Guillot 1922-Dec; Joseph Guillot 1926-2014; Lenus Guillot 1923-1960; Beulah Guillot 1918-1991. Bottom (parents), left to right: Ovillier Guillot 1897-1967; Eve Vice 1897-1950.

The two daughters wear similar dark, button-down dresses with white doll collars. The mother wears a dark, button-down open-collar blouse or dress. The two sons and the father wear white dress shirts covered by fastened suit jackets complete with ties.

Image by [[TBD]].

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Pictured above is my 3rd great-uncle Ovillier Guillot and his family. He is the 4th great-grandson of Jean Baptiste Guillot.

Today is the Day of Commemoration for the Acadian Expulsion.

While I have quite a few direct ancestors who lived in Nova Scotia and ended up in France at the time of the expulsion, there's only one family unit that I have been able to confirm was expelled.

That was the family of my 8th great-grandfather Jean Baptiste Guillot, born in Acadia in 1720 with his body given to the Atlantic Ocean in 1758. His family was expelled from Cobequid, Acadia, Nova Scotia to France during the brutal "Great Expulsion" by the British, who wanted to squelch any potential threats from the Acadians and the Mi'kmaq during the French and Indian War.

His son (my 7th great-grandfather) Charles Olivier Miquel Guillot was only 13 in 1758 when they had to take the long, arduous 75-day journey to France. His father Jean, along with 4 of his brothers, never made it off of the ship.

Charles grew up in France where he married and had 3 children of his own. They left France in 1785 to board one of the seven ships paid for by Spain, Le Saint-Rémi, to take them to Lafourche Parish, Louisiana.

Many members of the Wabanaki Confederacy (I believe predominately it was the Mi'kmaq militia), in addition to other affiliated Indigenous tribes and Acadians, who rallied a resistance were slaughtered or expelled. They refused to swear loyalty to the British crown and surrender to British colonists, refused to convert from Catholicism to Protestantism, and refused to allow themselves to be displaced without a fight. Numerous battles took place to stop the deportation with wins and losses across the board.

While no one has one lineage, I was raised as a proud Cajun despite having often felt ashamed of being Cajun for various reasons (like my accent). I even tried my hardest over twelve years to banish anything that could link me to my roots, not knowing the history behind a part of my ethnicity and culture.

Digging into my ancestry has been a wild ride, and there were many things found within my lineages that were not honorable in any way, but this chunk of my history? This has made me proud to be Cajun again.

I wish I had respected it more when I was still able to be immersed in it. I wish I had asked my pawpaw to tell me more stories. I wish I had kept up with Cajun French (AKA Louisiana French). I wish I hadn't let my cultural heritage fall through my fingers.

Many blessings to those who fought and lost their lives against the British colonists in an attempt to secure the freedom of not only themselves but of future generations to come.

[Disclaimer: I am still only beginning to educate myself about this event and am utilizing my current understanding of how events unfolded and who was involved. I apologize in advance for any misconceptions or misinformation regarding the historical accuracy of my comments.]

[tlaquetzqui]

The United States committed two deadly ethnic cleansings, the Trail of Tears, with c. 30,000 dead, and the Long Walk (the latter was mostly accidentally deadly), with c. 1,500. It also committed one deliberate genocide, the extermination campaign when they annexed California from Mexico, with I think c. 130,000 dead. There was also a genocide of the Plains Apache, I want to say 15,000 to 20,000 dead, but it was committed by the Comanche, not the Anglos.

Incidentally, the Expulsion of the Acadians in the mid-1700s, when the English took what is now western Canada (and part of Maine) from France, killed 5,000. And Acadians are white(-ish—lot of the French did marry Native Americans).

And the Beaver Wars, over about 70 years in the 1600s, when various northern tribes of the Eastern Woodlands cultures tried to monopolize the European trade, killed probably tens, maybe hundreds of thousands, over dozens (hundreds?) of massacres stretched over decades. They were arguably attempted ethnic cleansing, too—and one of the few wars really motivated entirely by greed. (No but it’s totally the Europeans’ fault the Natives said “Wow that trade sure is lucrative…let’s kill everyone else so it all goes to us.”) Almost like Native Americans are human beings, and therefore capable of the same petty stupid malice as white people. Or something.

[brookston]

Holidays 7.28

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