From Archaeology –March/April 2022 issue, Pages 30 – 35
Summary by Jay Bullard
Recently I subscribed to a magazine for the first time published by the (AIA) Archaeological Institute of America and this past week received my first issue. On page 30 it tells about how the French created a system of dikes that allowed water to drain out of marshes but prevented seawater from flowing back in. Those marshes, in a short period of time, became very productive farmland. The owners of that farmland became very rich from sales of food to Massachusetts and others. This land then became English land in 1755.
In 1755 there were about 14,000 Acadian living in Grand Pre. Between 1755 and 1760, most of the Grand Pre structures were burned. Starting in 1760 the land was basically given free to the various protestant colonist individuals from New England who would move to Nova Scotia.
This article also goes into depth on the history and does a super good job of telling those who only have a vague idea of what really happened to the Acadians from prior to 1682 until about the 2000s. Included in those pages on page 34 is how the Acadians went to Cajun with a short history of living there.