Nova Scotia Archives

Acadian Heartland

Records of the Deportation and Le Grand Dérangement, 1714-1768


The largest and most complete online presentation of primary-source documents relating to the Deportation of the Acadians from Nova Scotia, digitized and fully searchable.

Selections from the Public Documents of the Province of Nova Scotia, ed. T.B. Akins (Halifax, 1869); pp. 3-243
   I. Papers relating to the Acadian French, 1714-1755

Selections from the Public Documents of the Province of Nova Scotia, ed. T.B. Akins (Halifax, 1869); pp. 247-357
   II. Papers Relating to the Forcible Removal of the Acadian French from Nova Scotia, 1755-1768


Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, Vol. II (1881); pp. 129-160
   Papers relating to the Acadian French ~ Andrew Brown Collection


Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, Vol. IV (1885); pp. 113-246
   Journal of Colonel John Winslow at Beausejour, Summer 1755
Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society, Vol. III (1883); pp. 71-196
   Journal of Colonel John Winslow at Grand Pre, Autumn 1755