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Decorous Dispossession: Legally Extinguishing Acadian Landholding Rights

A view of George Street in Halifax by Richard Short in 1759

“Halifax looking down George Street, Nova Scotia 1759” by Richard Short, 1759. Source: Wikimedia Commons

Welcome to the fourth post of our Acadian History Series! Our post this week is by Elizabeth Mancke, CRC in Atlantic Canada Studies at UNB Fredericton, and amazing mentor to many, including myself. In fact, this particular blog post is part of a project that she has been working on for a while with two of her students – myself and Keith Grant (Borealia, now a graduated former student of Elizabeth Mancke). As always, this content is cross-posted on Acadiensis and Borealia; you can find an index to the rest of the series here.

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