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Joseph Leblancâs 1757 letter to his brother Charles, sent from Liverpool to an unnamed British city.
Welcome to the third post of our Acadian History Series! Our post this week is by Christopher Hodson, historian and associate professor at Bringham Young University, and author of The Acadian Diaspora: An Eighteenth-Century History. This is the third post of a six week series which is also being posted on Acadiensis and Borealia; you can find an index to the rest of the series here. If you would like to hear more about this topic, Dr. Hodson will be joining us for our Pointe Sainte-Anne visiting lecture series the evening August 28th in Fredericton, at Government House.
Louise Barre holding Expo 67 cake. [1963-1967]. Library and Archives Canada / Canadian Corporation for the 1967 World Exhibition / e011178095.
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This map, A DRAUGHT of the ISTHMUS which joyns Nova Scotia to the Continent with the Situation of the ENGLISH and FRENCH FORTS & the Adjacent BAYS and RIVERS, was drawn at some point between 1751 and 1755. The sites marked âOâ are captioned as: âDykes levelled by the English from which the Indeans used to Fire at the Vesells as they came up the River Mesiguash” and the villages in red, all Acadian, are indicated as those âburned by the Indeans.â Those villages were burned in September of 1750, when the British took control of the region. (There is also an indescribable image of an Indigenous person shaking hands with a European, behind the cartouche.) This work is licensed for use under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License. , https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:hx11z5039
Welcome to the second post of our Acadian History Series! Our post this week is by Anne Marie Lane Jonah, historian for Parks Canada and editor of the Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society. This is the second post of a six week series which is also being posted on Acadiensis and Borealia; you can find an index to the rest of the series here. Enjoy!
Veterinarian Dr. John A. Roberts examines a cat with a dislocated paw. 1954. Rosemary Gilliat Eaton. Library and Archives Canada.
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Because, letâs face it â who has time to catch up on all the journal articles published in Canadian history?
Welcome back to the Best New Articles series, where each month, I post a list of my favourite new articles! Donât forget to also check out my favourites from previous months, which you can access by clicking here.
This month I read articles from:
- Canadian Historical Review 100, no. 2 (June 2019)
- Histoire Sociale 52 no. 105 (2019)
- Revue dâhistoire de lâAmĂ©rique française 72, no. 3 (Hiver 2019)
- Canadian Military History 28, no. 1 (2019)
- BC Studies 201 (Spring 2019)
- British Journal of Canadian Studies 31, no. 2 (2018)
- Historical Studies in Education 31, no. 1 (Spring 2019)
- Labour/Le Travail 83 (Spring 2019)
- Manitoba History 89 (Spring 2019)
- Ontario History 11, no. 1 (Spring 2019)
- Urban History Review 46, no. 1 (Fall 2017)
- Zeitschrift fĂŒr Kanada-Studien 69 (2019)
- American Review of Canadian Studies 49, no. 1 (2019)
- Archivaria 87 (Spring 2019)
- Individual articles
Here are my favourites:
*Special thanks to Carly Ciufo and Shannon Stettner for their help on this piece!
“Map of the River St. John in the Province of Nova Scotia, exhibiting the grant to officers &c. in 1765, with other patents.” Charles Morris (1765) Library of Congress
Content Warning:Â The history of Pointe Sainte-Anne’s displacement is violent, and mentions specific instances of violence and murder; in particular, child death & torture. Proceed with caution.
Editor’s note: This blog post has been cross-posted on Acadiensis and Borealia, along with the rest of the series; be sure to check them out!
As I mentioned in the last blog post, today we will be starting with general overview with the history of Pointe Sainte-Anne, the events of 1759, and what we are attempting to achieve with the exhibit at the FRM.
But first, we need to emphasize that the history of Pointe Sainte-Anne obviously does not begin with the French at all, but with the WÉlastÉkwiyik. Sainte-Anne (and thereby Fredericton) is located on WÉlastÉkwiyik territory, which was never ceded. The first thing we aim to do with our exhibit is disabuse ourselves of the notion that the Acadians always peacefully co-existed with the local indigenous people. They did not. Although Acadians mostly managed to avoid outright war with the indigenous communities nearest to them, that doesnât mean they didnât outright displace them, and it certainly doesnât mean that the local indigenous communities benefited from their presence.[1]
“A view of the burning and plundering of Grimross” by Thomas Davies, National Gallery of Canada (Digital image from Wikimedia Commons)
Welcome to our summer series on Acadian history! We are very excited to be presenting this special six- week series, cross-posting on Unwritten Histories, Borealia, and  Acadiensis, and in collaboration with the Fredericton Regional Museum, the York Sunbury Historical Society, an Open Academy grant from the Royal Society, the UNB Departments of History and French, the New Brunswick College of Craft & Design, the Institut dâĂtudes Acadiennes, and Historica Canada.
The blog series is the result of an exhibit, which will be opening this summer at the Fredericton Region Museum (FRM), and which myself and Dr. Chantal Richard of the UNB French Department have been coordinating â Dr. Richard as Curator, and myself as Research Director, along with many more wonderful folks. The exhibit originated in numerous conversations between Chantal and myself about how lacking Fredericton was in terms of public education and knowledge of its Acadian history. Everything you see around here is Loyalist history . Beyond a few street names, and the name of the French school here in Fredericton, there is very little acknowledgment of the complex history of Saint-Anne, the Acadian village that existed in this location until its destruction in 1759. In an effort to get some traction behind the notion of revamping the history of Acadians in Fredericton, we organized a lecture series. The series has been far-reaching, and has included so many excellent speakers, including Dr. Andrea Bear-Nicolas, FidĂšle ThĂ©riault, Dr Greg Kennedy, and many more.
In honour of this series, we have invited several of the presenters to share their presentations here in blog-post form. Hereâs what you can look forward to seeing over the series:
- A blog post by me with a general overview with the history of Pointe Sainte-Anne, the events of 1759, and what we are attempting to achieve with the exhibit at the FRM.
- The following week, we will post Anne Marie Lane Jonahâs talk on âReconciling Chignecto: The many stories of Siknikt.â
- She will be followed by Dr. Christopher Hodson, who will be discussing his research on the Acadians deported into far-flung regions of the world.
- Next, Dr. Elizabeth Mancke will be discussing the legal ramifications of the deportation of the Acadians from Nova Scotia.
- In week five, we will be releasing three resource guides for teaching and researching Acadian history in three parts (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3)
- And we will conclude on August 13th with an interview with Maurice about the development of their brand-new Historica Canada Heritage Minute on the Acadian deportation.
We hope that you will enjoy this series as much as we will! And donât forget to stay tuned for my blog post, coming later today!
Rodeo shot taken at the Calgary Stampede, July, 1960. W. Kirkland. Library and Archives Canada. Copyright: Expired
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Note from Andrea: Today we have a very special guest post from Kassandra Luciuk! This post originated as remarks that she delivered at the Coptic Canadian History Projectâs Third Annual Conference, âWho Am I? Who Are We? Family, History, and Immigrant Identities,” as a discussant for the “Familiar Dilemmas and Ethnic History” panel. The panel itself included presentations by Pamela Sugiman (“The Stranger in my Family’s History: Reflections on the Telling of Japanese-Canadian History”); Roberto Perin (“Perin Peregrenations”); and Gabriele Scardellato (“The Catelli Clan in Montreal, 1845-1895”.)
Kassandra Luciuk is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History at the University of Toronto.