Lesson 10

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  • Period: Jan 1, 1567 to

    Samuel de Champlain

    cartographer, explorer, colonial administrator (born circa 1567 in Brouage, France; died 25 December 1635 in Québec City).
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    The North American colonists of the Dutch, English and the French were drawn into European wars and Native conflicts from the seventeenth century to the nineteenth century

  • The first serious attempt to settle Acadia

    came in 1642 when emigrants from the west coast of France near the port of La Rochelle arrived on the coast of the Bay of Fundy and built dikes and drainage ditches to reclaim farmland from the marshlands along the coast

  • Canada became a French royal colony

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    Unmarried women called les filles de roi (daughters of the King) were recruited to emigrate from France and marry the unwed men in Canada.

  • The English Crown regained Acadia under the Treaty of Utrecht following the conclusion of the War of the Spanish Succession

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    English Gov. Richard Philipps (1729-1730) allowed Acadian men over 15 to take a modified oath that stated that they would not be forced to take up arms against the French and some took that oath and agreed to be neutrals.

  • The British founded Halifax as a port and garrison town

  • 1755 the French Acadians of Nova Scotia faced a mass deportation known as the ‘Expulsion of the Acadians’.

  • The British and their colonists in the Thirteen Colonies began a new attack on the French in the Maritimes

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    Expulsion of the Acadians that began very decisively in 1755 but lasted sporadically to 1763

  • Compliance with taking the full oath was seen as a critical security measure by English colonial officials due to escalating hostilities between France and Britain in North America.

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    Seven Years War

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    1759-1760, the British Conquest of Canada.

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    Many Acadians sent to Massachusetts journeyed north to the St. Lawrence.

    After the Seven Years War ended in 1763, many Acadians sent to Massachusetts journeyed north to the St. Lawrence and settled in Canada or on the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon while those exiled to Maryland, South Carolina and Georgia eventually ended up in Santo Domingo, British Honduras or Louisiana (p. 156). Others destined for Virginia during the deportation were redirected to England and then France before they gathered at the port of Nantes in 1785 to voyage to Louisiana in an attempt.

  • “Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie” by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  • The British North America Act of 1867 was the Dominion of Canada’s constitution at Confederation.

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    A time of increased interest in genealogy in Québec

    that laid the groundwork for the contemporary surge in genealogical searches. The increase in leisure time, a better educated population, and “a search for distinctions” fed the popularity of genealogy

  • The government of Canada made a “sizeable donation” to help develop the Musée de l’émigration francaise du Canada in Tourouvre, France on the 400th anniversary of “the birth of Acadia”.

  • The 250th anniversary of the deportation of three-quarters of the Acadian population was marked with solemnity on the 28th of July in Grand Pré, Nova Scotia

  • Claude Laverdure, Canadian ambassador to France, and six regional officials attended the opening of the Musée de l’émigration francaise du Canada in Tourouvre, France.

  • Destination Canada’s overseas immigration mission. Immigrants were invited to Acadian towns to meet with community groups,

    Acadian communities organized immigration committees to attract newcomers to settle in their communities, and the communities held dinners so immigrants could meet the local residents to facilitate the acceptance of employment offers. The Fédération Acadienne de la Nouvelle-Êcosse (Acadian Federation of Nova Scotia) helped the small towns prepare welcome kits identifying French services and educational, health, transportation and public assistance services in their area.