The first victims of the move to drive out the French were not even in Canada – but a peaceful population of Acadians in Nova Scotia who refused to swear an oath to the English King. In the late ...

Monckton, as Yale University historian of the American frontier John Mack Faragher wrote, “killed and scalped scores of Acadians ... be unavailable because a Nova Scotia university is called ...

She saw it as a rejection of General Robert Monckton, who was linked with the deportation of the Acadians in 1755. But after a study, the university’s board rejected the idea as too costly and ...

The names of the communities in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, hint at the French, aboriginal, Scottish, Irish, and English origins of the people who live here: Baddeck, Margaree, Chéticamp ...

Aug. 1 marked the start of Nova Scotia’s first Acadian Heritage Month , which is honouring more than four centuries of ...