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Wide Angles, Close Quarters: A Human History of the Grand Dérangement

Archival image taken by author of a letter written by Joseph Leblanc to his brother

Joseph Leblanc’s 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.

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