Wednesday was Acadian Remembrance Day

Wednesday was Acadian Remembrance Day — a day when Canadians are invited to recall Acadians displaced in the 18th Century.
Gilles Arsenault, the minister responsible for Acadian and Francophone Affairs, noted that in 1758 and 1759, over three thousand Acadians were forced to leave their Island villages, abandon their properties and were placed on boats going to British colonies or France.
In 1758. a total of three shipwrecks took the lives of almost 1,000 Acadians.
Arsenault says he encourages all Islanders to learn more about the Great Deportation.