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Expulsion
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the mass deportations in 1755 of French Acadians who refused to take an unconditional oath of allegiance to the British flag.
Quotations
1950
Masstown was once an Acadian village called "cobequid," and the Acadians had a large place of worship there, the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul. It was burned at the time of the Expulsion. . . .
1963
Today, the Acadians' only popular preference in art are paintings and prints of the Expulsion, which is also the source for their melancholy folk songs.