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A Great and Noble Scheme

The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland

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A Great and Noble Scheme

Auteur(s): John Mack Faragher
Narrateur(s): Paul Heitsch
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In 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme" to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French") from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable families, and driving many into forests where they waged a desperate guerrilla resistance. The right of neutrality - to live in peace from the imperial wars waged between France and England - had been one of the founding values of Acadia. Its settlers traded and intermarried freely with native Mikmaq Indians and English Protestants alike.

But the Acadians' refusal to swear unconditional allegiance to the British Crown in the mid-18th century gave New Englanders, who had long coveted Nova Scotia's fertile farmland, pretense enough to launch a campaign of ethnic cleansing on a massive scale.

John Mack Faragher draws on original research to weave 150 years of history into a gripping narrative of both the civilization of Acadia and the British plot to destroy it.

©2005 John Mack Faragher (P)2019 Tantor Amériques Canada Moderne Monde XVIIIe siècle
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An extremely detailed history of the uprooting of a productive and peaceable society including followup of tragic consequences of their scattering

An example of the history of Ethnic cleansing

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I knew nothing about the Acadians, let alone their expulsion. The parallels between the British and American ethnic cleansing of these people and all later genocides throughout the 19th and 20th centuries are startling. One can easily see the patterns repeat throughout history.

Stephen Harper, a completely ignorant buffoon, stated that Canada has no history of colonialism. As if our treatment of first nations people wasn't enough, this treatment of the Acadians is no better and demonstrates in abundance, the exact qualities required to be considered colonialism. It's hard to know the truth about this country and how shameful it is.

What I find most ironic is that the Acadians started as pacifist, French, Catholic people and yet, once they became full citizens and Catholicism was granted fully recognized status in Canada, it was the Roman Catholic church that turned around and committed the very same crimes they had suffered as second class citizens against the first nations peoples in the residential school systems. Humans suck and this book demonstrates that very well.

This book also shows how resilient these communities of people were and how they have long outlasted the bigotry and hatred that caused them to suffer and die by the thousands. It was well written and well worth the read.

Book good, Canada bad.

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I learned so much from this book. I’m delving into my Acadian heritage and appreciate learning about this important part of Canadian, American, and British history that we weren’t really taught in school.

Great book!

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Narrator reads as if there is punctuation between each word. Very distracting. Stick to bad sci-fi, Mr. Heitsch.

Weird cadence.

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