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From: Yvon Cyr <>
Subject: RE: [ACADIAN-CAJUN] Acadians to get apology from Queen Elizabeth
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 09:15:51 -0500
References: <5.1.0.14.2.20031206215944.01dda490@mail.sentex.net>
In-Reply-To: <000401c3bc72$35fef1e0$a24d3f04@oemcomputer>
Yoo:
This is correct (and I have made a note that effect on my web site) at
http://www.acadian.org/apology.html ... the newspaper article is in error.
Yvon
At 09:28 PM 12/6/2003 -0600, Cajun wrote:
>One additional point. Lucie recently posted a reminder that no Acadians
>were actually deported to Louisiana. The first Acadians arrived in
>Louisiana in 1764 from New York after the war had ended and the Acadians
>had been given 18 months to leave the colonies. Others who had been
>imprisoned in Acadia and those who were in the colonies and the West
>Indies entered Louisiana between 1765-1770. In 1785, those who had been
>exiled to England and sent to France in 1763 and those who had been sent
>to France directly in 1758-1759 were allowed to go to Louisiana.
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