The dike-building French farmers of the Bay of Fundy, who held the tidal marshlands for a century and a half before deportation scattered them across the Atlantic world.
Mainland Acadia ceded to Britain in 1713; the Acadian population, refusing an unconditional oath, was rounded up and deported in the Grand Derangement of 1755-1764. Their descendants endure as Acadians in the Maritimes and as Louisiana's Cajuns.
The atlas holds 4 border frames for Acadia / Acadie — the shape you scrub through changes in 1604 · 1670 · 1713 · 1755.
The definitive narrative history of Acadia and the 1755 deportation, the Grand Dérangement.
Traces the scattered Acadians across the Atlantic world after expulsion.
The defining narrative poem of Acadia, dramatizing the 1755 Expulsion of the Acadians (Le Grand Derangement) that ended Acadia's existence as a French colony — a small liberty as it was written by an American decades later, but it is the single most famous work associated with Acadian identity.