A prominent Acadian who transported Acadians to Ile St. Jean and Ile Royal was Joseph-Nicolas Gautier.

On one occasion, when a British naval patrol intercepted Acadians in a vessel en route to Ile St. Jean, an Acadian passenger said, " They chose rather to quit their lands and estates than possess them upon the terms propos'd by the English governor.

Thousands of Acadians were deported from Ile Saint-Jean ( Prince Edward Island ) and Ile Royale ( Cape Breton ).

The Ile Saint-Jean Campaign resulted in the largest percentage of deaths of the deported Acadians.

In 1758, hundreds of Ile Royale Acadians fled to one of Boishebert's refugee camps south of Baie des Chaleurs.

More worryingly for the British authorities, some Acadians threatened to migrate north to French-controlled regions, including the St. John River, Ile Royale, the coasts of the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Canada.

Other than the campaigns to expel the Acadians ( ranging around the Bay of Fundy, on the Petitcodiac and St. John rivers, and Île Saint-Jean ), the only clashes of any size were at Petitcodiac in 1755 and at Bloody Creek near Annapolis Royal in 1757.

Acadians fled initially to Francophone colonies such as Canada, the uncolonized northern part of Acadia, Isle Saint-Jean and Isle Royale.

Roughly one thousand Acadians lived on the island, many of whom had fled to the island from mainland Nova Scotia during the first wave of the British-ordered expulsion in 1755, reaching a population of 5, 000.

Klöße, prepared by early German settlers who lived among the Acadians.

The homes of the Acadians who lived in the village were burned as part of the Bay of Fundy Campaign ( 1755 ) during the French and Indian War.

The Petitcodiac River Campaign was a series of British military operations that occurred from June to November 1758 to deport the Acadians who either lived along the river or had taken refuge there from earlier deportations.

Approximately 1000 Acadians went to Maryland, where they lived in a section of Baltimore that became known as French Town.

English Expulsion of the French Acadians -- who lived and intermarried with Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Miq ' maks ( many of whom were also taken ).

Acadians were idealists, hostile to King and Church authority, who lived in peace with the Miq ' maks.

Gagetown was originally named Grimrose by the Acadians and Maliseet, who lived here prior to the Expulsion of the Acadians.

The Acadians never lived on the Aspotogan Peninsula ; however, their presence in Nova Scotia significantly influenced immigration to the colony.

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.

The British grew increasingly alarmed by the prospect of disloyalty in wartime of the Acadians now under their rule.

The l ' Assomption parish church was situated on a hill overlooking the confluence of the Pisiquit and Saint Croix rivers where in 1750 it was pulled down by the Acadians under orders from the British to make way for Fort Edward.

After the failure of the French Duc d ' Anville Expedition to recapture Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia Governor Paul Mascarene told Acadians to avoid " deluding Hopes of Returning under the Dominion of France.

During the 1960s, the Liberals under Louis Joseph Robichaud were instrumental in bringing Acadians into the mainstream of life in New Brunswick, declaring the province to be officially bilingual.

When Phips came ashore the next day, it was discovered that Acadians had been removing valuables, including some that were government property ( and thus were supposed to come under the victor's control ).

The British used this fact against them and in August 1755, they began deporting Acadians under the orders of Charles Lawrence, now Governor of Nova Scotia.

During the Seven Years ' War, the British sought to neutralize any military threat Acadians posed and to interrupt the vital supply lines Acadians provided to Louisbourg by deporting Acadians from Acadia.

During the French and Indian War ( part of the Seven Years ' War and known by that name in Canada and Europe ), the British sought to neutralize the Acadian military threat and to interrupt their vital supply lines to Louisbourg by deporting Acadians from Acadia.

The British sought to eliminate future military threat posed by the Acadians and to permanently cut the supply lines they provided to Louisbourg by removing them from the area.

The British saw the Acadians ' allegiance to the French and the Wabanaki Confederacy as a military threat.

Lawrence realized he could reduce the military threat and weaken Fortress Louisbourg by deporting the Acadians, thus cutting off supplies to the fort.

During the French and Indian War, the British sought to neutralize any military threat Acadians posed and to interrupt the vital supply lines Acadians provided to Louisbourg by deporting Acadians from Acadia.

* 1755 – British governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council order the deportation of the Acadians.

Among them were several thousand Acadians who had escaped the deportation by fleeing into those areas.

Very few Acadians successfully escape the deportation and do so only by fleeing into some of the northern sections of present day New Brunswick.

The deportation of Acadians beginning in 1755 resulted in land made available to migrants from Europe and the colonies further south.

The deportation of the Acadians has become known as the Great Upheaval or Le Grand Dérangement.

Some Acadians, however, remained and escaped British attempts at deportation.

Despite great prosperity, the Acadian period ended tragically in 1755 with the deportation of the Acadians.

Soon after, Lieutenant Governor Charles Lawrence ordered the deportation of the Acadians and the destruction of their homes and property.

Accordng to Acadian historian Maurice Basque, the story of Evangeline continues to influence historic accounts of the deportation, emphasising neutral Acadians and de-emphasising those who resisted the British Empire.

Approximately fifty-five Acadians, who escaped the initial deportation at Annapolis Royal, are reported to have made their way to the Cape Sable region — which included south western Nova Scotia — from where they participated in numerous raids on Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

Most were deported, but some Acadians escaped to Quebec, or hid among the Mi ' kmaq or in the countryside, to avoid deportation until the situation settled down.

By 1760 the land left vacant by the deportation of the Acadians began to be resettled by New England Planters.

In addition to those exiled following the Lower Canada Rebellion, it has come to hold particular importance for the rebels of the Upper Canada Rebellion, and for the Acadians, who suffered mass deportation from their homeland in the Great Upheaval between 1755 and 1763.

Nouvelle was first settled by Acadians fleeing the deportation of 1755 and a few settlers from Jersey fleeing the American revolution and some Irish.

Under the leadership of French officer Boishébert, Acadians and Mi ' kmaq fought the deportation from their homeland.

The effects of the deportation resonate to the present day throughout Atlantic Canada and as far afield as Louisiana in the United States where many Acadians settled.

After the deportation of the Acadians, the vacant lands were resettled by New England Planters in 1760 and renamed Horton.

Monckton is also remembered for capturing Fort Beausejour, and the island of Martinique, as well as his role in the deportation of the Acadians from British controlled Nova Scotia ( because of their refusal to swear an unqualified oath of loyalty to the British Crown ), and also from French controlled Acadia ( present day New Brunswick ) during the early part of the Seven Years War.

The Acadians again refused to comply and, because of the ongoing conflicts between the British colonial authorities and the Acadians in Nova Scotia during Father Le Loutre's War, Lawrence ordered the deportation of the Acadian population of Nova Scotia to the other British North American colonies, as well as to Louisiana and to France.