Berwick Register March 20, 1929 >>snip There is one important fact in connection with the Expulsion of the Acadians from Nova Scotia which Mrs. Anderson does not mention in her interesting account of the "Early Settlement of Nova Scotia," which appeared in The Register of February 27th. This fact is that the Expulsion was carried out, not only without the authority or even the knowledge of the British Government, but contrary to its instructions. Years before the Expulsion took place a suggestion that the Acadians be removed was made to that Government. The reply was decidedly unfavorable. The officials making the proposal were advised to cultivate friendly relations with the French peasantry, from whom much of the foot required by British military and naval forces in Nova Scotia was derived. The officer from Quebec who was in command of the troop that massacred Colonel Noble and his New England soldiers at Grand Pre, complained bitterly that the Acadians refused to supply him with provisions on the way. Two men seem to have been responsible for the Expulsion. These were Governor Lawrence of Nova Scotia and Governor Shirley, of Massachusetts. No British soldiers took part in it. Winslow, who commanded, was a descendant of one of the early governors of Massachusetts. One modern writer, Mr. Richard, a descendant of an expelled family, says that the Governors Lawrence and Shirley, divided between them cattle and other plunder to the value of twenty thousand pounds. -- Phil Vogler