02/18/2020
"Before the English settled in Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 or the Dutch settled near Albany, New York in 1615, a group of French-speaking, Catholic and Huguenot settlers established a settlement in today's Nova Scotia in 1605.
By 1755, nearly 15,000 Acadians lived in Acadia/Acadie." Nowadays, well over four millions descend from this amazing emerging cultural group during the 17th and 18th century. Come plunge in with us to discover it on and on.
In case you missed this interesting episode of Ben Franklin's World with Christopher Hodson, author of The Acadian Diaspora, it asks us to consider the question:
"In your opinion, what might have happened if the geopolitics of the eighteenth century had been different and the Acadians had been allowed to stay in Nova Scotia after 1755?"
What do you think might have happened?