BREAUX DU MONDE

 

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Day of Remembrance

 

Thursday, July 28 –

 

In Halifax, Nova Scotia on July 28, 1755 British

Governor John Lawrence signed the deportation

order setting in motion Le Grand Derangement.

“From 1755 to 1763 it is estimated by historians

that 7,000 – half of the entire ethnic population of

the Acadians – perished during their diaspora from

disease, starvation, and neglect, as well as from

violence by the British.”

Though the efforts of attorney Warren

Perrin, “In 2003, Queen Elizabeth II signed the

Royal Proclamation decreeing that every July 28th

the world should pause to remember the suffering

of the Acadians during the Acadian exile.” By

symbolically declaring an end to the Acadian

exile, the Royal Proclamation stated: ‘...we

acknowledge these historical facts and the trials

and sufferings experienced by the Acadian people

during the Great Upheaval.’”

On Thursday, July 28 let us take a

moment to remember how fortunate we are to

have survived as a people!