In the dead of winter, when snow piles high in Moncton and Shediac and other places in old Acadie, I sometimes think that Governor Charles Lawrence, who plotted their exile, may have done the Acadians a backhanded favor by sending them to warmer climes.
Of course, the exile was tragic and traumatic and an international crime. It was an attempt to eradicate the Acadians as a people. But it didn’t…