Despite their position between warring French and British empires, European settlers in the Maritimes eventually developed from a migrant community into a disti

During the American Colonial Period, in the absence of uniform migration regulation, British colonists in the Atlantic seaboard colonies reacted to the arrival

In 1600 there were no such people as the Acadians; by 1700 the Acadians, who numbered almost 2,000, lived in an area now covered by northern Maine, New Brunswic

An evocative and beautifully written history of some of Canada’s earliest settlers, and their search for a definitive home. In 1604, a small group of migrants

Mainly covers the Acadian dispersal in the United States and Canada.