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History - Cobequit (con't)
Post-Deportation
The two thousand Acadians that were able to escape the deportation
of 1755 were hidden in the many forests in Nova Scotia and in New
Brunswick. They lived in constant fear thinking they might, one
day, be captured by the English and be prisoners in Halifax.
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May 1st ,1757, the Acadian families were not able to go out or circulate
around the American colonies in which they were put in, they needed
autorisation to get out of this environment.
February 8, 1766, the few Acadians that reunited in Boston asked
to be transported to Canada. The Representatives of the Chamber
of Masachusetts refused to give this to the Acadians.
Since they were not able to provide sufficent vessels, Acadians
of Massachusetts, of Connecticut and of New York decided to walk
to Montreal. This voyage of around 800 kilometers didnt scare
the Acadians since they were used to this in their life styles within
the Acadian forests in the maritime provinces. In the spring of
1767, parents and friends of the Amirault and Forest families, gathered
in Connecticut and formed groups for their long voyage to Canada.
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Bibliography
Arsenault, Bona, Histoire
et généalogie des acadiens, Tome 1, Le Conseil de la vie
française en Amérique, Québec, 1965
Deveau, J. Alphonse, Notre Héritage
Acadien Vol. 1, Limprimerie de lUniversité Sainte-Anne,
Pointe-de-lÉglise, N.-É., 1982
Deveau, J. Alphonse, Sally Ross, Les
Acadiens de la Nouvelle-Écosse; hier et aujourdhui, Éditions
dAcadie, Moncton, 1995
Lanctôt, Léopold, LAcadie
des Origines, Éditions du Fleuve, Montréal, 1988
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