Corporan and Trahan were my grandmother's grandmother's people. They were held captive by the Spanish in Texas after being marooned on a ship for many months. They were starved and had to reaort to eating first, the rats on the ship, then they ate the leather of the shoes. They managed somehow. To GOD be the glory for sustaining them on that journey to Louisiana. Thank you for sharing and GOD bless you.
My nana was very poor in NS her dad was a furtrapper with the Migmaqs and there were 7 kids. Her father first married a Migmaq woman and had one daughter, then mother died. He remarried a french woman had 7 kids. Eventually the father drank alot so the 9ldest migmaq daughter took all 7 kids by horse and buggy to Saint John, NB she had a housekeeping job lined up. My nana and her smaller sister had to live in an ophanage they were under 10. Later Marie married the man she cared for his home and kids. There was no welfare then. My nana worked as a fountain girl then worked as a waitress and met her husband he was the main chef. Later they married and opened two famous french bakeries downtown. Nana only went to grade 3, they were kept poor and not educated from 1610 unill the 50s
Port Royal was established in 1605 not 1604. The Port Royal captured by the British in 1710 is not the same place as the 1605 settlement. The new Port Royal was established in the 1630s on the site of the Scots' Charles Fort by the French at what is now Annapolis Royal. The British did not intentionally separate family members. It mostly goes to what is defined as family members. Parents and young dependent children were largely kept together. Extended families were not necessarily deported to the same places. At Grand Pré the initial stratagem was to imprison the men and boys aged ten and older at the church. This left the women, young children and elderly on the farms. Once the deportations began the families were reunited to board the ships. There also was not a wholesale shooting of people who ran. In the Grand Pré area I believe this occurred once. Later rounding up of Acadians took place largely in a theater of war and deaths occurred during the fighting. It is uncertain how many Acadians there were and 8000 Acadians did not die during the deportations. The numbers during the transportation was quite low. Acadian later, after they had been settled in the various British American colonies did die of disease and destitution. The deportations were terrible events by any measure.
EdinburghFive The video is a way to summarize the events. I will do a video to explain the deportations in more details. Thank you for your comment and stay tuned!
Hi @@histogracial5655 - Many thanks for your response. I certainly do appreciate you can only place so much information in the few minutes of the video but the information still needs to be factually correct. There is so much myth out there about the Acadians and the deportation. Admittedly I am a bit of a stickler when it comes to history and historical context of Acadian history! Great work you are doing and I look forward to seeing more.
@histogracial5655 Edinburgh 5 is just a Scottish dog with an axe to grind because it hates French people. Probably upset about the Jacobine uprising that happened in Scotland.
The indigenous did NOT always get along with the Acadians. The Acadians had to pledge Allegiance. The Rich ones left early with their slaves and headed back to France 🇫🇷. The poor one's that the King of France gave land to stayed. Their king did not want them back, and they did just wanted to live free. Slaves of Indigenous and black slaves and a mix of both were on the British side. All this info can be found in Ottawa. The narrative told here barely tells the whole story. French left France because the King was giving out parcels of land to the poor and criminals. Dig a bit and you can find out what was transpiring in France.
Hey Donna Green. Good to see you have an interest in Acadian history. Your understanding of the history though is a bit off. For example, the Acadians did not own slaves. They had no use for slaves and would not have been able to afford them. The French settlers who eventually become known as the Acadians did not leave "France because the King was giving out parcels of land to the poor and criminals". In the early 1600s the King of France granted to one of his rich friends, Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons, a trade monopoly in Acadia. Dugua sets up the colony as a commercial venture. Subsequently, men such a Charles and Claude laTour, and Charles de Menou d'Aulnay, etc. continue managing the colony as a commercial adventure until France makes it a crown colony in the 1660s. The French colonist were brought in by these aforementioned men as seigneurial tenant farmers. Most Acadians remained tenants after the British took control of the colony.
@@EdinburghFive Don't you see, Acadian history does not fit a certain narrative and must therefore be erased and forgotten. So they say, but so have others tried to erase and forget us in the past. It didn't stick then and it won't stick now.
Hey @@Werebat Acadian history has hardly been or continues to be erased. There are many books, research papers, monuments, historic sites, etc. There is no singular narrative in history. There are many narratives that intersect and intertwine. That is what makes history so fascinating.
@@EdinburghFive We are an inconvenient footnote in history for a certain narrative. I agree with you though, hence "it didn't stick then and it won't stick now."
What a shame on the British Empire. Acadians should stand proud of their culture. It would be a shame if the younger generation abandon their beautiful culture that has survived notwithstanding the difficulties that the Acadian people experienced under British ethnic cleansing. Thanks for taking the time to post this video, its an eye opener.
Make no mistake, the intrigues of the French colonial administration, their troops, Canadian militias, and the Mi'kmaq, also makes them very much responsible for what happened to the Acadians.
Landon Street as a Canadian, let me tell you , the words “French Canadian” used in the wrong context , or almost any context, is like nails on a chalk board 🤷♂️😂
@@Joedirt2023 ils sont des oppresseurs qui vois pas la folie dans leurs oppression. C'est ridicule de expecter ils va changer . Vive le Québec libre vive la révolution !
Obviously not all were expelled. My ancestors from the Margaree River Valley migrated to Maine in the 19th century. LaFlamme, LeBlanc, D’Aigle. Can i assume some swore loyalty to the British crown?
Some managed to escape the Great Deportation, something like 10% and lived in hiding with the Mikmaq until they can re-emerge in the mid 1760s. Also Acadians were allowed to come back but they had to swear an oath of loyalty and they can only live in small villages of no more than 10 families.
C'était à Nouvelle-Écosse pas Nouveau-Brunswick. Nous autres les Acadiens ici on est les Français trop fiable pour combat . Les Acadien fortes s'appelle les Cajuns aujourd'hui. Nous autres on a caché dans les bois.
@@stephanosnormandusdelacroi8570 The deportations took place across primarily Nova Scotia, New Brunswick., and Prince Edward Island, not just Nova Scotia . The Cajuns are the Acadians who got caught, deported, and later immigrated to Louisiana.
@@1thinkboss We are never spoken of because the British won. Such is life. Today we get to be lumped in with all the "White" people and told to feel sorry for the things the British did. The ultimate irony.
To learn more about The History of Acadia :
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I am here because of my people, the Acadians/'Cadiens. My momma is of the original LeBlanc line of Daniel LeBlanc
Corporan and Trahan were my grandmother's grandmother's people. They were held captive by the Spanish in Texas after being marooned on a ship for many months. They were starved and had to reaort to eating first, the rats on the ship, then they ate the leather of the shoes. They managed somehow. To GOD be the glory for sustaining them on that journey to Louisiana. Thank you for sharing and GOD bless you.
Best video! Thanks for this, it helped for a school project! Kept up with the exelent info!!
My nana was very poor in NS her dad was a furtrapper with the Migmaqs and there were 7 kids. Her father first married a Migmaq woman and had one daughter, then mother died. He remarried a french woman had 7 kids. Eventually the father drank alot so the 9ldest migmaq daughter took all 7 kids by horse and buggy to Saint John, NB she had a housekeeping job lined up. My nana and her smaller sister had to live in an ophanage they were under 10. Later Marie married the man she cared for his home and kids. There was no welfare then. My nana worked as a fountain girl then worked as a waitress and met her husband he was the main chef. Later they married and opened two famous french bakeries downtown. Nana only went to grade 3, they were kept poor and not educated from 1610 unill the 50s
As an acadian borned and raised, thank you for sharing my story to the world.
Port Royal was established in 1605 not 1604. The Port Royal captured by the British in 1710 is not the same place as the 1605 settlement. The new Port Royal was established in the 1630s on the site of the Scots' Charles Fort by the French at what is now Annapolis Royal.
The British did not intentionally separate family members. It mostly goes to what is defined as family members. Parents and young dependent children were largely kept together. Extended families were not necessarily deported to the same places. At Grand Pré the initial stratagem was to imprison the men and boys aged ten and older at the church. This left the women, young children and elderly on the farms. Once the deportations began the families were reunited to board the ships.
There also was not a wholesale shooting of people who ran. In the Grand Pré area I believe this occurred once. Later rounding up of Acadians took place largely in a theater of war and deaths occurred during the fighting.
It is uncertain how many Acadians there were and 8000 Acadians did not die during the deportations. The numbers during the transportation was quite low. Acadian later, after they had been settled in the various British American colonies did die of disease and destitution.
The deportations were terrible events by any measure.
EdinburghFive The video is a way to summarize the events. I will do a video to explain the deportations in more details. Thank you for your comment and stay tuned!
Hi @@histogracial5655 - Many thanks for your response. I certainly do appreciate you can only place so much information in the few minutes of the video but the information still needs to be factually correct. There is so much myth out there about the Acadians and the deportation. Admittedly I am a bit of a stickler when it comes to history and historical context of Acadian history!
Great work you are doing and I look forward to seeing more.
I understand your passion and your love for history! Thank you very much for your comment. :)
@histogracial5655 Edinburgh 5 is just a Scottish dog with an axe to grind because it hates French people. Probably upset about the Jacobine uprising that happened in Scotland.
The indigenous did NOT always get along with the Acadians. The Acadians had to pledge Allegiance. The Rich ones left early with their slaves and headed back to France 🇫🇷. The poor one's that the King of France gave land to stayed. Their king did not want them back, and they did just wanted to live free. Slaves of Indigenous and black slaves and a mix of both were on the British side. All this info can be found in Ottawa. The narrative told here barely tells the whole story. French left France because the King was giving out parcels of land to the poor and criminals. Dig a bit and you can find out what was transpiring in France.
Hey Donna Green. Good to see you have an interest in Acadian history. Your understanding of the history though is a bit off.
For example, the Acadians did not own slaves. They had no use for slaves and would not have been able to afford them.
The French settlers who eventually become known as the Acadians did not leave "France because the King was giving out parcels of land to the poor and criminals". In the early 1600s the King of France granted to one of his rich friends, Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons, a trade monopoly in Acadia. Dugua sets up the colony as a commercial venture. Subsequently, men such a Charles and Claude laTour, and Charles de Menou d'Aulnay, etc. continue managing the colony as a commercial adventure until France makes it a crown colony in the 1660s. The French colonist were brought in by these aforementioned men as seigneurial tenant farmers. Most Acadians remained tenants after the British took control of the colony.
@@EdinburghFive Don't you see, Acadian history does not fit a certain narrative and must therefore be erased and forgotten. So they say, but so have others tried to erase and forget us in the past. It didn't stick then and it won't stick now.
Hey @@Werebat Acadian history has hardly been or continues to be erased. There are many books, research papers, monuments, historic sites, etc.
There is no singular narrative in history. There are many narratives that intersect and intertwine. That is what makes history so fascinating.
@@EdinburghFive
We are an inconvenient footnote in history for a certain narrative. I agree with you though, hence "it didn't stick then and it won't stick now."
@@Werebat Please explain "certain narrative" and "it didn't stick then and it won't stick now." What exactly are you talking about?
What a shame on the British Empire. Acadians should stand proud of their culture. It would be a shame if the younger generation abandon their beautiful culture that has survived notwithstanding the difficulties that the Acadian people experienced under British ethnic cleansing. Thanks for taking the time to post this video, its an eye opener.
Make no mistake, the intrigues of the French colonial administration, their troops, Canadian militias, and the Mi'kmaq, also makes them very much responsible for what happened to the Acadians.
My nana was Acadian from Nova Scotia
Love this
im from louisiana with minimal french canadian ancestry so this video was interesting.
Landon Street as a Canadian, let me tell you , the words “French Canadian” used in the wrong context , or almost any context, is like nails on a chalk board 🤷♂️😂
@@BigpapamoneymanMVPtypebeat the more I learn about my ancestors the more I hate the British/Canadians.
@@BigpapamoneymanMVPtypebeat I’m fucking glad if my own existence causes you discomfort!
@@Joedirt2023 calm down Felix, it’s not that deep 😂🤙🏼
@@Joedirt2023 ils sont des oppresseurs qui vois pas la folie dans leurs oppression. C'est ridicule de expecter ils va changer . Vive le Québec libre vive la révolution !
Obviously not all were expelled. My ancestors from the Margaree River Valley migrated to Maine in the 19th century. LaFlamme, LeBlanc, D’Aigle.
Can i assume some swore loyalty to the British crown?
Some managed to escape the Great Deportation, something like 10% and lived in hiding with the Mikmaq until they can re-emerge in the mid 1760s. Also Acadians were allowed to come back but they had to swear an oath of loyalty and they can only live in small villages of no more than 10 families.
They was hating on my people. My people was Bosses now we over here in Louisiana fukin struggling fuk. This shyt.
The sound quality of this video is more tragic than the actual deportation
Pas vrai.
British army:are we bad guy 🤔🤔🤔
they stole the farm from us in n.b i'm acadian
C'était à Nouvelle-Écosse pas Nouveau-Brunswick. Nous autres les Acadiens ici on est les Français trop fiable pour combat . Les Acadien fortes s'appelle les Cajuns aujourd'hui. Nous autres on a caché dans les bois.
@@stephanosnormandusdelacroi8570 The deportations took place across primarily Nova Scotia, New Brunswick., and Prince Edward Island, not just Nova Scotia . The Cajuns are the Acadians who got caught, deported, and later immigrated to Louisiana.
Yes they was hating how we bossed up as a people without their help.
@@1thinkboss We are never spoken of because the British won. Such is life. Today we get to be lumped in with all the "White" people and told to feel sorry for the things the British did. The ultimate irony.
Majority were killed
i have a history test tomorrow and this is helpful but i need more info
I hope you did well !
how was the history test
Well it was good 😊 I got a 4- I usually terrible at history.