In a message dated 12/6/03 8:57:41 PM Eastern Standard Time, cajun@acadian.org writes: << The deportation occurred between 1775 and 1783, scattering French-speaking people into Maine and as far south as Louisiana. >> this is an odd statement! I wonder what the source was for this info.. does it mean the leaving of Acadians from France back where the British had forced some to go, others going on their own from other deportation sites, to North America ? Fran Wilcox

Hey Fran et al: I agree... I believe the dates should be "between 1755 and 1763". Yvon At 09:02 PM 12/6/2003 -0500, you wrote: >In a message dated 12/6/03 8:57:41 PM Eastern Standard Time, >cajun@acadian.org writes: > ><< The deportation occurred between 1775 and 1783, > scattering French-speaking people into Maine and as far south as Louisiana. > >> > > >this is an odd statement! I wonder what the source was for this info.. does >it mean the leaving of Acadians from France back where the British had >forced >some to go, others going on their own from other deportation sites, to North >America ? > >Fran Wilcox

One additional point. Lucie recently posted a reminder that no Acadians were actually deported to Louisiana. The first Acadians arrived in Louisiana in 1764 from New York after the war had ended and the Acadians had been given 18 months to leave the colonies. Others who had been imprisoned in Acadia and those who were in the colonies and the West Indies entered Louisiana between 1765-1770. In 1785, those who had been exiled to England and sent to France in 1763 and those who had been sent to France directly in 1758-1759 were allowed to go to Louisiana. See Arrival of the Acadians on my site at http://www.thecajuns.com/acadians.htm Stanley LeBlanc www.thecajuns.com -----Original Message----- From: Yvon Cyr [mailto:cajun@acadian.org] Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 9:02 PM To: ACADIAN-CAJUN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ACADIAN-CAJUN] Acadians to get apology from Queen Elizabeth Hey Fran et al: I agree... I believe the dates should be "between 1755 and 1763". Yvon At 09:02 PM 12/6/2003 -0500, you wrote: >In a message dated 12/6/03 8:57:41 PM Eastern Standard Time, >cajun@acadian.org writes: > ><< The deportation occurred between 1775 and 1783, > scattering French-speaking people into Maine and as far south as Louisiana. > >> > > >this is an odd statement! I wonder what the source was for this info.. >does it mean the leaving of Acadians from France back where the >British had forced some to go, others going on their own from other >deportation sites, to North America ? > >Fran Wilcox ==== ACADIAN-CAJUN Mailing List ==== http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=topics.ethnic.acadian -cajun This is a link to the Acadian-Cajun Message Board at RootsWeb. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Yoo: This is correct (and I have made a note that effect on my web site) at http://www.acadian.org/apology.html ... the newspaper article is in error. Yvon At 09:28 PM 12/6/2003 -0600, Cajun wrote: >One additional point. Lucie recently posted a reminder that no Acadians >were actually deported to Louisiana. The first Acadians arrived in >Louisiana in 1764 from New York after the war had ended and the Acadians >had been given 18 months to leave the colonies. Others who had been >imprisoned in Acadia and those who were in the colonies and the West >Indies entered Louisiana between 1765-1770. In 1785, those who had been >exiled to England and sent to France in 1763 and those who had been sent >to France directly in 1758-1759 were allowed to go to Louisiana.