
A Great and Noble Scheme
The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland
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Paul Heitsch
In 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme" to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French") from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable families, and driving many into forests where they waged a desperate guerrilla resistance. The right of neutrality - to live in peace from the imperial wars waged between France and England - had been one of the founding values of Acadia. Its settlers traded and intermarried freely with native Mikmaq Indians and English Protestants alike.
But the Acadians' refusal to swear unconditional allegiance to the British Crown in the mid-18th century gave New Englanders, who had long coveted Nova Scotia's fertile farmland, pretense enough to launch a campaign of ethnic cleansing on a massive scale.
John Mack Faragher draws on original research to weave 150 years of history into a gripping narrative of both the civilization of Acadia and the British plot to destroy it.
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Great story, problematic narration
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Like many Americans, my knowledge of Canada is limited although I am somewhat familiar with when the Dominion of Canada started and then added provinces. I am familiar with French & Indian War history, but Acadia is hardly mentioned in the books that I have read. It was eye-opening to me to see that the Acadians barely regarded themselves as French which created problems with the French and English. The fact that the Acadians were more interested in their (extended) families than their 'home' country 3000 miles away (France) is refreshingly non-national. Unfortunately the officials that they dealt with were highly nationalistic (my country is good, your country is bad), and this led to a series of travails. The neutral Acadians got caught between opposing forces and the results were an embarrassment to the human race.
Acadia, noy canada
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A family history
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A slice of unjustly ignored history!
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Listening to this pulls together my life in Ontario, the Gaspé, and the US into a fuller picture.
Ethnic cleansing was not a new term but it certainly gained far greater significance at a personal level.
One can’t move into Acadian strongholds without becoming somewhat confused by both the stories and the facts you thought you knew.
It’s disconcerting to now recognize how much these events continue to negatively affect our countries today.
The section on collective guilt was strong and really tough to assimilate. This permeates all of our history and wars. When is guilt exonerated? This was also well presented in this book. He asks many of the same questions each of us has asked and yet never found acceptable answers.
How does one say I’m sorry if our life style doesn’t appreciatively change in response?
How to right am unrightable wrong and …. the way forward now.
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Absolutely fascinating
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Must Read For Acadians
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The fate of my ancestors.
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Informative and Engaging
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Weak narration
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