While their journeys were desperate and difficult, times were even harsher for members of the Acadian resistance who remained in hiding in the forests of their homeland. Part Three of The Advertiser's series on the Acadian adventure tells their story, as related in Bona Arsenault's book, History of the Acadians. History tells us that war leaves in its wake the sweetness of victory and the sorrow of the vanquished.
War makes heroes, also.
That's certainly true of the conflict between the English and the French in Acadia. After Le Grande Derangement of 1755, hundreds of Acadians who had managed to escape deportation hid in the forests of Nova Scotia. As had happened so often before, they hoped the French would regain control of the area so they could reclaim their homesteads from the Protestant enemy. Brossard dit Beausoleil, Alexandre and Joseph. As leaders of the Acadian resistance, they remained in Acadia until after the Treaty of Paris was signed in 1763.