There may still be time to register for Nicole Gallant Nunes’ free virtual lecture, The History of the Acadians: Through Tranquility, Turmoil and Tenacity, that will be presented on Wednesday, January 14, from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. Eastern time. It will be hosted by the Orange Country Library System in Florida.
Due to the interest in the lecture, the library added additional places, and as of yesterday, more than 100 people had registered.
It is a presentation focused on the history of the Acadian people, beginning with the early settlement of Acadia in 1604 and touching upon their daily lives in these thriving communities leading up to the period of the Acadian Expulsion which began in 1755 in Nova Scotia. This presentation discusses the main events in the timeline of the Acadian Expulsion when the British forcibly removed over ten thousand people of the Acadian population from their homeland in what is now eastern Canada and thrust them into exile and despair that spanned for decades in different locations across the world. I will be noting the devastating impacts of this great upheaval upon the Acadian community and concluding with their persistent determination to rebuild their lives, remembering those lost and preserving a culture that still thrives to this very day.
Ms. Nunes is a professional genealogist from eastern Massachusetts. She specializes in Acadian and French Canadian research with a sub-specialty of early New England research.
