Maptour Page 2
Maptour: The Acadian Expulsion: a Canadian Tragedy
A Marshland Habitat


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Map: Acadian Population Distribution: 1750, 1803

Try This:

  • Open the interactive map "Acadian Population Distribution: 1750, 1803."
  • Click on the "Zoom to" drop-down menu and select "Bay of Fundy."

Notice ...

  • Marshlands everywhere supported settlement, but not all settlement was in marshlands.

Try This:

  • Under LAYER CONTROLS, turn off the checkbox for "Small settlements, 1750" and turn on the checkbox for "Forts, 1750."

Notice ...

  • Military fortifications seem not to have shown much direct interest in the people occupying the marshlands.

Consider!

  • Current population had experience elsewhere (perhaps in Europe) living in marshy conditions.
  • It may have been cheaper to build dikes against the sea than to cut trees to produce farmable land.
  • Survival came from the sea, not from the land.
  • The far-flung empires of France and Britain were in a power struggle here.