Expulsion of the Acadians Justified?
It depends on what you mean by justified, tactically justified yes because they were French sympathisers. Tactically a bad idea to have that area where the French could sail and unload troops. Humaninely justified no, because they had settled the land and had ‘rights’ as such to said land. However back then with Imperialism, the major power of any province pretty much decided the fate of anyone. However nobody ever mentions the native indians. Acadians are the original French people who settled the areas now called Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island starting in the early 17th century. The first French settlers arrived in 1604, but actual colonies didn’t take root until the 1630s. Throughout the 1600s, various treaties flipped ownership of the Acadian colonies between the French and the English. In the early 18th century, the War of Spanish Succession spilled over into North America. The Treaty of Utrecht ended the war in 1713 and made the Acadians permanent British sub
