Photographs of
Iron Cross
unveiled on 19 August 1924

Deportation Cross St. Martinville, Louisiana
...A series of commemorative cross monuments will be designed and unveiled
in Atlantic Canada, the United States, France, England, the Caribbean
and Quebec, to mark those sites where Acadians landed after the Deportation...
    http://www.acadianmemorial.org/english/deportationcross.html

Cajun Life and Times, issue 33
... The original cross is in Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, and marks the site
of the embarkation of the Acadians in 1755.  A series of commemorative
cross monuments will be designed and unveiled in Canada, the United States,
France, England, the Caribbean, and Quebec.  These sites are where
the Acadians landed after the deportation...
    http://www.cajunlifeandtimes.com/lagniappe_issue33.htm

Replica Revives History: St. Martinville Cross Honors Grand Pre Exile
by Jim Bradshaw, The Daily Advertiser, Lafayette, Louisiana, 10 June 2003
...(The Grand Pre) cross memorializes events of early September 1755,
when transport ships began to assemble off of a shallow, marshy spit of land
near Grand Pre, Nova Scotia. They were there to receive longboats laden with
hundreds of Acadians who had been forcibly evicted from their ancestral lands
and were to be scattered around the world as penniless exiles. Nearly 170 years
later, in 1924, a large iron cross was dedicated at that embarkation point
about a mile from the Grand Pre church. Now, nearly 250 years later, an exact
duplicate stands next to Bayou Teche, where many of those exiled families
eventually found new homes. The cross in St. Martinville is the first of ten...
    http://www.acadiananow.com/news/html/
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Workers lower the 20-foot Grand Pre replica
into place Monday [June 9th, 2003] along the banks
of the Bayou Teche in St. Martinville, Louisiana.
The Daily Advertiser, Lafayette, 10 June 2003

St. Martinville Honored as Memorial Cross Site
Editorial in The Advertiser, Lafayette, Louisiana, 15 June 2003
...In 1924, a large iron cross was dedicated at a point near Grand Pre,
where British ships carried the Acadians away from their land and in
many cases from family members.  The cross blessed by Bishop Jarrell
today is a replica of that one.  St. Martinville is the appropriate
place for the first of ten such replicas to be placed at points where
Acadians ended their tragic journey...
    http://www.acadiananow.com/ouropinion/html/
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Acadians Memorialize Ancestors' Tribulations
The Advocate (daily newspaper), Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 16 June 2003
...More than two centuries later, a simple iron cross stands beside
St. Charles Catholic Church in Grand Pre, Nova Scotia, as a memorial to
Le Grande Derangement, the 1755 deportation of the Acadians.  Last week,
a replica of that cross was erected in the garden of the Acadian Memorial
in St. Martinville, Louisiana.  On Sunday [June 15th, 2003] it was blessed
by the bishop of Lafayette and dedicated during a solemn ceremony in the
church built by the first Acadians who arrived here.  St. Martinville's cross is
the first of 37 planned for sites around the world where those deported
Acadians were dropped in 1755: England, France, the East Coast of America
and the islands in the Caribbean, said Christy Dugas Maraist, president of
the Acadian Memorial Foundation...
    http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/061603/new_acadian001.shtml

New Iron Cross replica at the Acadian Memorial
in St. Martinville, Louisiana
The Advocate, Baton Rouge, 16 June 2003