Heroism and Villainy
Revisiting the Great Expulsion — even as Acadians question its relevance January–February 2012
For the Acadians of New Brunswick, one third of the province’s population, the decade from 1994 to 2004 felt like one long celebration. Just two years after the enshrinement of their own French-language school system in the Canadian constitution, in 1994 they welcomed members of the Acadian diaspora to the first Congrès Mondial Acadien, a symbolic reversal of the infamous expulsion of their ancestors in…