Acadian Driftwood, Tyler LeBlanc
Acadian Driftwood, Tyler LeBlanc
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Acadian Driftwood
One Family and the Great Expulsion

Author: Tyler LeBlanc

Narrator: Pierre Simpson

Unabridged: 5 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: ECW Press

Published: 08/15/2023


Synopsis

Winner, Evelyn Richardson Award for Non-Fiction and Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing
A Hill Times Top 100 selection
A Canada’s History Bestseller Piecing together his family history through archival documents, Tyler LeBlanc tells the story of his ancestor Joseph LeBlanc and the LeBlanc family during the Great Expulsion. A unique biographical approach to the history of the Expulsion, Acadian Driftwood is a vivid insight into one family’s experience of this traumatic event.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dean

Tyler LeBlanc immerses readers in the horrific eighteenth-century deportations that scattered his Acadian ancestors and almost destroyed their culture. This deeply researched book is a gripping account of a dark chapter in Canada’s history as well as an uplifting tale of one person's discovery of he......more

Goodreads review by Laurie

Very well done. Love the research he undertook - and the important story he related. Hope he keeps writing on this subject.......more

I loved this book as the story told is very similar to that of my ancestors from Isle Madame in Nova Scotia, where my father grew up.......more