The English demanded that they swear an oath of allegiance to George I. The Acadians stalled, and then refused. A delegation from Beaubassin explained why to the governor of Annapolis Royal ...

The paper is an oath of allegiance to the former King signed in 1768 by Acadian Antoine Solomon Malliet. He was one of the first permanent settlers in the area 250 years ago.

On July 28, 1755, British Governor Charles Lawrence ordered the deportation of all Acadians from Nova Scotia who refused to take an oath of allegiance to Britain. Over the following 13 years, ...

And as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow chronicled in his poem, Evangeline, this is exactly what happened when the proud Acadians refused to take the oath. For most people, taking an oath is not a problem.

In 1755, fearing the military threat they felt the Acadians represented to them unless such an oath was made, the British exiled the Acadians from their homes in a movement known as Le Grand ...

Now, the Bloc wants to make the oath of allegiance to him ... and “oppression” committed by the kingdom and emphasized that nothing can excuse events like the deportation of the Acadians.

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Members of Parliament and senators may be able to dodge the centuries-old oath of allegiance to King Charles if a Liberal MP gets his pending private member's bill passed.

In 1755, fearing the military threat they felt the Acadians represented to them unless such an oath was made, the British exiled the Acadians from their homes in a movement known as Le Grand ...