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Great And Noble Scheme

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A superbly researched account of most of the players in the wresting of North America from the French by Britain and the sad results it created for those Acadians who wanted to remain neutral. Many innocents, many villians and some simple patriots on both sides. Very detailed history, lacking only in some of the longer term results which shaped the era after many Acadians returned.

Faragher puts a great deal of factual detail into this work and you might think that the story would get bogged down. Not a bit of it. The Acadian deportation is a tragic tale that will never grow old, I dare say, and the factual history of the matter is as gripping as any fictional treatment. A people who just wanted to be left alone (more or less) were viewed with suspicion and also jealousy due to the quality of the country they lived in. They had very little power to bear on their fate and thus their stubborn refusal to pledge allegiance to Great Britain provided the pretext for one of the great injustices in North American history, along with the dispossession of aboriginal populations. This is a Canadian story and an American story. Read it, you'll be better for it.