Bryson

The earliest surviving Acadian census is taken. The total count comes to 340 people

Dec 4, 1671

Another census finds a population of 1450 Acadians

Dec 4, 1704

Acadia is "permanently" given to the British after the Treaty of Utrecht

Dec 4, 1713

2576 settlers are brought to Acadia by the British. Wood cutters are massacred by French led Indian raids (first Darmouth massacre)

Dec 4, 1749

The first wave of the expulsion began on August 10, 1755, with the Bay of Fundy Campaign (1755) during the French and Indian War. The British ordered the expulsion of the Acadians after the Battle of Beausejour (1755).

Aug 10, 1755

Governor Lawrence of Halifax and Colonel Winslow of Massachusetts deport (exile) Nova Scotia Acadians throughout the civilized world after the Acadians repeatedly fail to comply government decrees. Over 6000 Acadians are deported the first year

On November 17, 1755, during the Bay of Fundy Campaign at Chignecto, George Scott took 700 troops and attacked twenty houses at Memramcook. They arrested the Acadians who remained and killed two hundred head of livestock, to deprive the French of supplies

Nov 17, 1755

The Acadians who fled to Ile St. Jean and Ile Royal are rounded up and sent to France.

Dec 4, 1758

For the first 10 years of the exile (1755-1764), there is no documentation that Acadians made their way to Louisiana. In this period, they were still in French Canada, the American colonies, England, and France.

Dec 4, 1764