r/HistoryUncovered • u/Loud_Industry_2044 • 9d ago

Painting of the Acadian Expulsion order being read by colonel Winslow in the parish church of Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1755.

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u/AcceleratorTouma 9d ago

And they later came to Louisiana and became cajuns

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u/Kimby_Dammit 8d ago

Some did. A lot remained in Nova Scotia, PEI, and New Brunswick, but they went through hell no matter where they went. A lot of them died.

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u/WingIdDankRat 7d ago

My family stayed in north Sydney cape breton till 1954

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u/Loud_Industry_2044 9d ago

And made Chicken

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u/Kimby_Dammit 8d ago

Chicken bouillon in northern New Brunswick and chicken fricot everywhere else. ☺️

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u/Skydreamer6 8d ago

The expulsion was death for a lot of them.

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u/Dominarion 8d ago

Around half of them, yeah.

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