Acadian Expulsion

[Alana in Canada]

I know the chances of getting this answered may be slim, but there do seem to be a lot of Mariimers on this board (and the occasional Louisianian!)

 

I'm looking for fictional books about this topic. It would be a read aloud.

 

Calico Captive has been suggested--it takes place in the same period--but it deals with the French and Indian War--not the Expulsion.

 

Anything out there?

TIA.

Edited April 24, 2009 by Alana in Canada

[YHZNS]

I don't think you can talk about the expulsion without reading Evangeline by Longfellow. (It isn't a novel but a poem.)

[YHZNS]

I haven't personally read Winds of L'Acadie but have heard good things about it:

 

http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/Winds-of-L-Acadie-Lois-Donovan/9781553800477-item.html?ref=Search+Books%3a+%2527winds+of+l%2527acadie%2527

 

Band of Acadians, another novel, is scheduled to be released this summer:

 

http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/search?keywords=band%20of%20acadians&pageSize=10

 

Hope this helps!

Edited April 24, 2009 by YHZNS

[stripe]

I found a list of books on this website:

http://www.umaine.edu/canam/k-12outreach/acadia/culturefocus.htm

There are five works of fiction (for children), and four non-fiction works. There is a description of each.

 

This one

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/settlement/kids/021013-1100-e.html

has some more books listed, without the plot annotations.

 

Hopefully something is useful there.

[ChicoryChick]

This isn't fiction, but there is a landmark book called "Evangeline & the Acadians" It might still be OOP though if they haven't reprinted it.

 

OH, also Janette Oke has a series about the Acadian Expulsion called the Acadians. The first book in the series "The Meeting Place" is the one that deals with it, the rest take place after the fact.

[Alana in Canada]

I looked up some reviews of Wind of L'Acadie here: http://clcd.odyssi.com/cgi-bin/sirsi/search/r?dbs+child:@term+@isbn+9781553800477

 

in case anyone else is interested.

 

Thanks for the other titles,. I'll give them a look. I'm pleased to hear Janette OKe has written some. I like her work, for times when I need light reading!

[mcconnellboys]

Yes, I was getting on to suggest Evangeline, as well. There was a movie made a few years ago that touched on the topic, too. I'm not sure what it was called.....

[Avila]

This isn't fiction, but there is a landmark book called "Evangeline & the Acadians" It might still be OOP though if they haven't reprinted it.

 

OH, also Janette Oke has a series about the Acadian Expulsion called the Acadians. The first book in the series "The Meeting Place" is the one that deals with it, the rest take place after the fact.

 

I have to second the Landmark book "Evangeline and the Acadians." It is worth finding!

 

We are descended from the Acadians on my maternal grandmother's side, so we have been doing some reading about them.

 

Good reading!

[Alana in Canada]

Funnily enough, I just finished reading Granatstein's "Who killed Canadian History" and I'm a tad leery of movies at the moment, lol!

[KDBask]

We read:

 

http://www.scholastic.ca/dearcanada/books/banished.htm

 

It is the only one that I have read of this series, but I, too, was having a hard time finding something age appropriate that wouldn't take too long as a read aloud. It took some explaining for my 4&6 yos, but the 8&10yos really enjoyed it. My ds10 sometimes gives me a hard time about "girl" books but this one was okay.

 

I had preread this one from our library as well, but found it a little more for an older audience:

Winds of l'Acadie

Donovan, Lois,

(I haven't checked the reviews that you gave yet tho.)

 

I was going to read Longfellow's Evangeline, except it seemed too old and long (poemwise) for my younger set and I learned in studying it, that she was not a real historical figure. (Just thought that it was an interesting fact to note!)

 

We used A Song for Acadia by Downie as a reader.

Edited April 26, 2009 by KDBask

[flyingmommy]

I want to second (or third:) the poem Evangeline. I live in Louisiana and this is one of the first Louisiana history things I remember learning.

 

Jeannie

[Shifra]

Even though my introduction to the Acadian Expulsion was Evangeline, I think that Longfellow did not get all his facts correct about the expulsion. So use Evangeline cautiously! The book In Search of Evangeline: Birth and Evolution of the Evangeline Myth by Carl A. Brasseaux discusses the historical inaccuracies of Evangeline.