Acadians not expelled

SwampTiger

Banned
Part of the issue of the Acadiens is the attitudes of the natives. The Acadiens were walking a fine line between loyalty to their new British masters and the native antipathy towards the British colonists of New England. Acadien settlements tried to maintain their previous good relations with the natives. The British felt the Acadiens were actively supporting native raids. In addition, many Catholic clergy were opposed to British rule. At some point, these stresses will boil over. A continued and expanding Acadien population will cause problems for British rule. The British must increase their military presence in the eastern provinces to protect its western colonists. The Maritimes will receive some overflow from Acadia. This will increase the British perception of a threat. The British do not seem to have sufficient conciliatory and diplomatic colonial administrators to handle the challenge of absorbing the Francophone Catholics.

For those who think the French presence in Louisiana was geographically limited, note the French settled along every waterway they could reach. The settlement at Natchitoches was established fours years before New Orleans. The Cajun area was settled by Germans, Spaniards, and French before the Americains bought the colony, which held the entire Mississippi-Missouri watershed.
 
I think, that, a good anology is how the Spanish crown wasn't exactly gleeful at the methods, that, Cortes and the other conquistadors used to subjugate the natives but also didn't do too much to stop them.

Indeed.

Part of the issue of the Acadiens is the attitudes of the natives. The Acadiens were walking a fine line between loyalty to their new British masters and the native antipathy towards the British colonists of New England. Acadien settlements tried to maintain their previous good relations with the natives. The British felt the Acadiens were actively supporting native raids. In addition, many Catholic clergy were opposed to British rule. At some point, these stresses will boil over. A continued and expanding Acadien population will cause problems for British rule. The British must increase their military presence in the eastern provinces to protect its western colonists. The Maritimes will receive some overflow from Acadia. This will increase the British perception of a threat. The British do not seem to have sufficient conciliatory and diplomatic colonial administrators to handle the challenge of absorbing the Francophone Catholics.

For those who think the French presence in Louisiana was geographically limited, note the French settled along every waterway they could reach. The settlement at Natchitoches was established fours years before New Orleans. The Cajun area was settled by Germans, Spaniards, and French before the Americains bought the colony, which held the entire Mississippi-Missouri watershed.

If we are assuming that history unfolds as OTL, with the Acadians remaining in their homeland but with New France falling by the end of the Seven Years War, it's certainly imaginable that the leniency extended OTL to the Canadiens might also be extended to the Acadians. If the French colonists living along the St. Lawrence are allowed to remain in their homes and able to enjoy civil and political rights despite their non-Protestant religion, why shouldn't the French colonists living along the Bay of Fundy?

One obvious issue is that, in a TL with British victory, Nova Scotia will be in a substantially different strategic setting than Canada. Halifax will become a major port of the British Empire, for instance, while the large numbers of British and German Protestant settlers on the Atlantic shore of Nova Scotia have no parallels in Canada until the Loyalist settlements. The Acadians will certainly be the largest population in Nova Scotia, but the area will be decidedly more multiethnic than Lower Canada ever was.
 
To add to this thread of mine, I have read, that, before the expulsion, the Acadians and the Mi'ikmaq were close to creating a Métis culture.
 
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