| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

N. E. S. Griffiths. From Migrant to Acadian: A North American Border People, 1604–1755. Ithaca, N.Y.: McGill-Queen's University Press for the Canadian Institute for Research on Public Policy and Public Administration, University of Moncton. 2005. Pp. xix, 633. $49.95.
The product of nearly fifty years of research and interpretation, this volume is the culmination of N. E. S. Griffiths's pioneering work on the history of the French Acadians of the North American maritime region. As the title suggests, Griffiths organizes her history around the question of identity during the 150 years between the founding of Acadie and the expulsion of the Acadians from the colony of Nova Scotia by New England and British forces in 1755. This is a difficult assignment because the Acadians were largely illiterate and left few records of their own. But utilizing original materials in French and British colonial archives, Griffiths is able to argue forcefully that Acadian historical experience was the foundation of Acadian identity.	1
The creation of "a people where none had been before" (p. xvii) began very early with the intermarriage of colonial migrants and native Míkmaq. Regarding each other as kin, the two communities would continue to live in peace. That accommodation was facilitated by the Acadian practice of diking the shores of the Bay of Fundy (where the tidal variation is the greatest in the world), creating new farm land rather than encroaching on the Míkmaq estate. The cooperative effort required to build and maintain the dikes, moreover, fostered the development of a strong sense of community.	. . .

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