The former French colony of Acadia—permanently renamed Nova
Scotia by the British when they began an ambitious occupation of
the territory in 1710—witnessed one of the bitterest struggles in
the British empire. Whereas in its other North American colonies
Britain assumed it could garner the sympathies of fellow Europeans
against the native peoples, in Nova Scotia nothing was further from
the truth. The Mi'kmaq, the native local population, and the
Acadians, descendants of the original French settlers, had
coexisted for more than a hundred years prior to the British
conquest, and their friendships, family ties, common Catholic
religion, and commercial relationships proved resistant to
British-enforced change. Unable to seize satisfactory political
control over the region, despite numerous efforts at separating the
Acadians and Mi'kmaq, the authorities took drastic steps in the
1750s, forcibly deporting the Acadians to other British colonies
and systematically decimating the remaining native population. The
story of the removal of the Acadians, some of whose descendants are
the Cajuns of Louisiana, and the subsequent oppression of the
Mi'kmaq has never been completely told. In this first comprehensive
history of the events leading up to the ultimate break-up of Nova
Scotian society, Geoffrey Plank skillfully unravels the complex
relationships of all of the groups involved, establishing the
strong bonds between the Mi'kmaq and Acadians as well as the
frustration of the British administrators that led to the Acadian
removal, culminating in one of the most infamous events in North
American history.
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