The British response to the Acadian exodus…

June 1750 CE

The British response to the Acadian exodus accelerates it.

Cornawallis orders, for example, Captain John Handfield and two companies of troops to Fort Vieux Logis in Grand Pre with instructions to patrol the roads to prevent Acadians from leaving.

Patrols also happen throughout the Cobequid. (On one such patrol, Noel Doiron’s priest Jacques Girard had been arrested. This action had precipitated Doiron leaving Noel, Nova Scotia for Point Prime, Ile St. Jean in the spring of 1750.)

The British eventually forbade all assemblies of the Acadians, and they have been ordered to supply the British commanders with provisions and offer their labor on demand, at prices set by regulation.

Not surprisingly, many Acadians refuse to supply the British, and by the summer of 1750 Acadians by the hundreds are in flight from the province.

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