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In 1654, New England raiders attacked Acadian settlements on the Annapolis Basin, starting a period of uncertainty for Acadians throughout the English constitutional crises under Oliver Cromwell, and only being properly resolved under the Treaty of Breda in 1667 when France's claim to the region was reaffirmed.
While these were basically renamed Dutch core settlements, they were quickly converted to English purposes, while the Dutch remained within the colony, as opposed to later practice of the Acadian Expulsion.
) Approximately seventy-five years after Port Royal was founded, Acadians migrated from the capital and established what would become the other major Acadian settlements before the Expulsion of the Acadians: Grand Pré, Chignecto, Cobequid ( present-day Truro, Nova Scotia ) and Pisiguit ( present-day Windsor, Nova Scotia ).
To guard against Mi ' kmaq, Acadian and French attacks on the new Protestant settlements, British fortifications were erected in Halifax ( 1749 ), Dartmouth ( 1750 ), Bedford ( Fort Sackville ) ( 1751 ), Lunenburg ( 1753 ) and Lawrencetown ( 1754 ).
To guard against Mi ' kmaq, Acadian, and French attacks on the new Protestant settlements, British fortifications were erected in Halifax ( 1749 ), Dartmouth ( 1750 ), Bedford ( Fort Sackville ) ( 1749 ), Dartmouth ( 1750 ), Lunenburg ( 1753 ) and Lawrencetown ( 1754 ).
Poitou is believed to be the region of origin of most of the Acadian and Cajun populations of North America ( settlements founded in New Brunswick, Louisiana, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, the Gaspe Peninsula of Quebec, Maine and Newfoundland ).
* Belle Cote, a small picturesque fishing village located at the mouth of the Margaree River where it flows into the Gulf of St Lawrence, marks the traditional boundary of the Scottish settlements to the south and the Acadian villages to the north that are located on the western side of Cape Breton Island.
The Tantramar, and the Acadian settlements there, became ground zero for the nine-year conflict that became the Seven Years ' War ( or the French and Indian War ).
Colonel Robert Monckton led a force of 1150 British soldiers to destroy the Acadian settlements along the banks of the St. John River until they reached the largest village of Sainte-Anne des Pays-Bas ( Fredericton, New Brunswick ) in February 1759.
The St. John River Campaign occurred during the French and Indian War when Colonel Robert Monckton led a force of 1150 British soldiers to destroy the Acadian settlements on the banks of the St. John River until they reached the largest village of Ste Anne ’ s Point ( present day Fredericton, New Brunswick ) in February 1759.
As such, he would name the basin " Port-Royal ", the Royal Port ; this was, for many years, the name of both the body of water, and the subsequent French and Acadian settlements in that region.
) Approximately seventy-five years after Port-Royal was founded, Acadians spread out from the capital to found the other major Acadian settlements established before the Expulsion of the Acadians: Grand Pré, Chignecto, Cobequid and Pisiguit.
To guard against Mi ' kmaq, Acadian and French attacks on the new Protestant settlements, British fortifications were erected in Halifax ( 1749 ), Bedford ( Fort Sackville ) ( 1749 ), Dartmouth ( 1750 ), Lunenburg ( 1753 ) and Lawrencetown ( 1754 ).
Following the siege of Fortress Louisbourg in 1758, British forces on their way to Quebec City attacked French settlements on Ile-Saint-Jean ( present-day Prince Edward Island ) and continued along the coast, where they entered the lower Miramichi River valley and destroyed and scattered the small Acadian settlements.
Now, few Acadians live there, though there are several Acadian settlements on the opposite bank of the Petitcodiac River, such as Pre d ' en Haut, New Brunswick.
After the capture of Fort Beausejour during the Seven Years War, in an attempt to gain control over the region, the British sent a punitive expedition consisting of two companies of British colonial troops into the Petitcodiac River Valley to destroy the Acadian settlements located there.
Over the course of the next several months, the deportation effort spread to other French settlements on the Bay of Fundy and ultimately over 7, 000 Acadian men, women and children were forced from their homes.

Acadian and had
The Acadian French did create a large French influence in the diet of those settled in Louisiana, but had little or no influence outside of Louisiana.
While Lower Louisiana had been settled by French colonists since the late 18th century, the Cajuns trace their roots to the influx of Acadian settlers after the Great Expulsion from their homeland during the French and Indian War ( 1754 to 1763 ).
That year Bishop Patrice Chiasson, an Acadian who had succeeded Bishop Barry in 1920 as bishop of Chatham, managed with the help of a few priests to keep the college operating.
His work was not entirely of a political nature: in a humanitarian streak he supported Acadian refugees who had been expelled from their Nova Scotia homelands, even though this support of Roman Catholics was unlikely to gain friends in Protestant Massachusetts.
The boys had learned apple farming and other Acadian families moved here to assist them with their apple business.
Acadian communities had spread slowly from Port Royal up the Nova Scotian Fundy Coast via Grand-Pré, and finally on to the Maccan area.
During the siege, the French officer Marin had taken British prisoners and remained with them in the bay at Cobequid, where an Acadian said that the French soldiers should have " left their British carcasses behind and brought their skins.
Father Le Loutre's War hand created the conditions for total war ; British civilians had not been spared and, as Governor Charles Lawrence saw it, Acadian civilians had provided intelligence, sanctuary, and logistical support while others had fought against the British.
By the 1960s, radio and television had begun to help disseminate French folk songs, especially after the 1967 foundation of the Centennial Collection of Canadian Folk Songs, including recordings of Quebec performers like Yves Albert and Jacques Labrecque, as well as Acadian Edith Butler.
The poem had a powerful effect in defining both Acadian history and identity in the nineteenth and twentieth century.
The poem had a powerful impact in both defining Acadian history and identity in the nineteenth and twentieth century.
In response, Felix Voorhies wrote the book Acadian Reminiscences: The True Story of Evangeline and other later works of fiction expanded upon the material of the poem, claiming the " real names " of the characters had been " Emmeline LaBiche " ( in Longfellow her full name is Evangeline Bellefontaine ) and " Louis Arceneaux " ( in the poem, Gabriel Lajeunesse ).
The Canadian market also had a Pontiac version of Chevette named Acadian.
His mother was from a prominent Acadian family on Prince Edward Island while his father's family had emigrated to Cape Breton from the Scottish Highlands in 1810.
The Poitevin-Saintongese language has had an influence in Quebec French, Acadian and Cajun.
came to support in recognition of the support that members of the Acadian community had given to his companies.
Newfoundland French and Acadian French speakers who had lived and worked their entire lives in relative francophone isolation now found themselves at the heart of an American, Canadian, British and Newfoundlander anglophone economic centre.
The expedition that year was led by Samuel de Champlain ( who had also had an important role in establishing the Acadian colony ), and resulted in the establishment of the colony that grew to become Quebec City.
Hatfield had made inroads in the Acadian community since the 1970 election, winning three francophone seats in by-elections.
On October 26, 1844 Charles Fenerty took a sample of his paper to Halifax's top newspaper, the Acadian Recorder, where he had written a letter on his newly invented paper saying:

Acadian and primarily
Gambit is fluent in various languages, primarily English and Cajun French / Acadian French.
The crews of the French privateer Pierre Maisonnat dit Baptiste were primarily Acadian.

Acadian and although
These models are often referred to as Pontiacs, but in fact were never marketed as such, nor did they ever wear Pontiac badges ( although the Acadian and Beaumont emblem was in fact, similar to the Pontiac Arrowhead ).
Phips received a hero's welcome and was lavished with praise, although he was criticized in some circles ( and has been vilified in French and Acadian histories ) for allowing the sacking of Port Royal.
Later, some of the lands already settled by the Acadians were granted to anglophones, although after decades of petitioning the Quebéc government, some of the Acadian settlers were able to gain title to the lands they occupied.

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