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Text of Charles Lawrence's orders to Captain John Handfield:

On Friday, September 5, 1755 Colonel John Winslow ordered that all males aged 10 years and up in the area were to gather in the Grand-Pré Church for an importan...t message from His Excellency, Charles Lawrence, the Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia. It was a New Englander, Charles Morris, who devised the plan to surround the Acadian churches on a Sunday morning, capture as many men as possible, breach the dykes and burn the houses and crops. When the men refused to go, the soldiers threatened their families with bayonets. They went reluctantly, praying, singing and crying. By the fall of 1755 some 1,100 Acadians were aboard transports for South Carolina, Georgia and Pennsylvania. Some Acadians resisted, notably Joseph Beausoleil Brossard, who launched a number of retaliatory raids against the British troops. Many escaped to the forests, where the British continued to hunt them down for the next five years. A group of 1,500 fled for New France, others to Cape Breton and the upper reaches of the Peticoudiac River. Of some 3,100 Acadians deported after the fall of Louisbourg in 1758, an estimated 1,649 died by drowning or disease, a fatality rate of 53 per cent. Between 1755 and 1763, approximately 10,000 Acadians were deported. They were shipped to many points around the Atlantic. Large numbers were landed in the English colonies, others in France or the Caribbean. Thousands died of disease or starvation in the squalid conditions on board ship. To make matters worse, the inhabitants of the English colonies, who had not been informed of the imminent arrival of disease-ridden refugees, were furious. Many Acadians were forced, like the legendary Evangeline of Longfellow's poem, to wander interminably in search of loved ones or a home. The expulsion proved to have been as unnecessary on military grounds as it was later judged inhumane. Lawrence's lack of imagination played as big a part as greed, confusion, misunderstanding, and fear. See more

Crédit photo: Ísjaki Studio

A few scenes from the tintamarre at the CMA 2019 Acadia Day celebration in Dieppe, NB on 8/15/19

Laissez les bontemps roulez!

: Rachelle Richard-Léger (Image Authentik) et Daniel Saint-Louis

BONNE FÊTE NATIONALE! Aujourd'hui c'est la fête, et il y a des activités toute la journée! Venez fêter en famille à la Place 1604, embarquer dans le Grand... Tintamarre Eastlink, puis voir LE SPECTACLE ACADIEN DE L'ANNÉE au site MusiquArt, derrière l'Aréna Centenaire à Dieppe! Soyez fiers avec nous pour le 15 août #Acadie2019 HAPPY NATIONAL ACADIAN DAY Today, we celebrate, and there's stuff going on all day! Come with all your family at Place 1604, hop into the Grand Tintamarre Eastlink, and then stay for THE ACADIAN SHOW OF THE YEAR at the MusiquArt site, behind the Centenaire Arena in Dieppe! Come out and celebrate proudly with us today