Some 4,000 Acadians escaped the first deportations by fleeing to Īle Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island), Baie des Chaleurs and French settlements along the St. Lawrence River. Many were later deported from Īle Saint-Jean.

The Acadian deportations 1755-1794

1755-1757: British send an estimated
7,000 Acadians to the American colonies

1756: 1,100 of the deportees are expelled
from Virginia and shipped to England

1762: 1,500 Acadians are deported from Nova Scotia
to Massachusetts but are immediately returned

1758-1794: 7,300 Acadians are deported to
France from Īle Saint-Jean, Nova Scotia and
Saint-Pierre et Miquelon