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After the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763, Acadians were allowed to return to Nova Scotia as long as they did not settle in any one area in large numbers; they were not permitted to resettle in the areas of Port Royal or Grand-Pré. Some Acadians resettled along the Nova Scotia coast and remain scattered across Nova Scotia to this day.
Under D'Aulnay, the Acadians built the first dykes in North America and cultivated the reclaimed salt marshes. [15] During this time, Acadia was plunged into what some historians have described as a civil war; the two main centres were Port-Royal, where d'Aulnay was stationed, and Fort Sainte-Marie, where de la Tour was stationed. [16]
Until 1784, Acadians were persistently pursued by the British, and they were compelled to live without property titles. [11] The shelters and houses constructed during this period were hastily built. In 1761, Gamaliel Smethurst observed that after an attack on their village, the Acadians of Nipisiguit constructed shelters in two or three days. [12]
The Expulsion of the Acadians [b] was the forced removal [c] of inhabitants of the North American region historically known as Acadia between 1755 and 1764 by Great Britain.It included the modern Canadian Maritime provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, along with part of the US state of Maine.
An overland expedition did recapture Les Mines in 1746 but was quickly expelled by the British. [9] In 1748, the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle gave Île Saint-Jean and Île Royale back to France, which the British considered an affront. [10] The British decided to change their strategy and end the French presence, including the Acadians. [10]
The Acadians also varied their diets by hunting for moose, hare, ducks and geese, and pigeon. [88] After 1630, the Acadians began to build dikes and drain the sea marsh above Port Royal. The high salinity of the reclaimed coastal marshland meant that the land would need to sit for three years after it was drained before it could be cultivated ...
Broussard was born in Port-Royal, Acadia, in 1702 to Jean-François Broussard and Catherine Richard.His father came from Poitiers and his mother was born in Port Royal. He lived much of his life at Le Cran (present-day Stoney Creek, Albert County, New Brunswick), along the Petitcodiac River with his wife Agnes and their eleven children.
Port-Royal National Historic Site is a National Historic Site [1] [2] located on the north bank of the Annapolis Basin in Granville Ferry, Nova Scotia, Canada.The site is the location of the Habitation at Port-Royal, [3] which was the centre of activity for the New France colony of Port Royal in Acadia from 1605 to 1613, when it was destroyed by English forces from the Colony of Virginia.