This essay tries to answer this question by looking at five specific regions of early Acadie: Port-Royal, the Minas Basin and Cobeguit, all of which became part of Nova Scotia in 1713; Île Royale, which became British, under the name Cape Breton, in 1763, and Chipoudie, on the Petcoudiac River, and officially became New Brunswick in 1784.

It describes the dynamics of the Acadian economy, manifested in the land-based communities and in the coastal trading carried out by businessmen and sea captains in 18th‑century Acadie. The essay will explore the methods used by the Acadians to settle the land, to establish their farms, to cultivate the meadows and to create their hamlets and villages.

One of the unpublished documents illustrates the ancestral homesteads of the founding families along the Dauphin (Annapolis) River of Port-Royal, the cradle of Acadie.

A series of deportations, the "Grand Dérangement", brought ethnic cleansing to Acadie, followed by an orgy of destruction. This essay chronicles these events and the tragic destiny of the deportees and refugees.

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