The Acadians: A People’s Story of Exile and Triumph by Dean W. Jobb

 This is a historical account of the brutal exiling of the Acadian people of early Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island by the British in 1755. The horrors which these gentle farmers who were some of Canada’s first citizens went through was nothing less than genocide orchestrated by English overlords.

They displaced the Acadians to different locations across the globe, yet today still hold the same language and traditions and even gather to celebrate their ethnicity and resilience.

One issue I had with this telling was there was not enough emphasis on the role of the French government, the Catholic priests and a group of hotheads that forced the British hand in this displacement.