THE GREAT UPHEAVAL - EIGHT YEARS OF DEPORTATIONS
Overview
1755
Beaubassin:
On August 11th,
400 Acadian men, coming from numerous settlements scattered in the Chignecto
isthmus and along the shores of the Chepoudy, Petitcodiac and Memramcook
Rivers, are imprisoned in Fort Cumberland, formerly called Fort Beauséjour.
On October 13th,
1,100 Acadians are deported toward South Carolina, Pennsylvania and Georgia.
Many perish along the way, for example aboard The Cornwallis, only 210
Acadians out of 417 survive the voyage to Charleston.
Cobequid Area and specifically Grand-Pré:
On September 5th, 418 Acadian men are held prisonner in the church and 183
men are held at Fort Edward. On November 1st,
more than 1,500 men, women an children are crammed aboard vessels and
deported to Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Pisiquid:
Approximately 1,000
habitants are deported and their villages destroyed.
Annapolis Royal and villages on both sides of the Annapolis River:
600 persons are
captured and on November 3rd,
more than 1,600 Acadians are deported to Massachusetts, Connecticut, New
York and North and South Carolina. Several families are separated.
It is estimated that approximately 6,050 Acadians were deported in 1755.
1756
Pobomcoup (Pubnico) :
Approximately 70
Acadians are deported.
1758
- Isle Royale:
4,000 Acadians are
deported.
Isle Saint-Jean:
3,100 are deported to
France – two ships sink and 679 prisoners perish. In the meantime, 1,500
escape to the Miramichi and toward Canada – Quebec of today.
1759
Cape Sable:
200 Acadians are
deported to France.
1758-1763
Acadians who take refuge in uninhabited regions are hunted down and
deported
1760
Halifax:
2,000 detained and 300
deported to France.
1762
Halifax:
Of the 1,700 remaining
detainees, 1,300 are deported to Boston, and then sent back to Halifax as
prisoners of war.
TOTAL : More than 10 000 Acadians were deported between 1755 and 1763.