Expulsion: a sign of the times

George the Second, the British Monarch in 1755.

The Expulsion of the Acadians was not the only purge of an unwanted population.

Pierre d'Iberville's French forces laid waste to nearly every settlement on Newfoundland's Avalon Penisula in 1697, 100 English were killed, many more made prisoner, and over 500 deported to England or France.

French authorities forcibly removed nearly 800 Acadian and French inhabitants from Saint-Pierre & Miquelon, 1767.

After the American Revolution, the United Empire Loyalists were expelled to what became Canada, including Nova Scotia and Annapolis County.

Highland Scots were likewise affected when their way of life was disrupted by the Clearances between 1762 and 1886.

"The diaspora was worldwide, but emigrants settled in close communities on Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia in Antigonish and Pictou counties and later in Cape Breton. One estimate of Nova Scotia's population has 50,000 Gaels immigrating from Scotland between 1815 and 1870.[56] At the beginning of the 20th century, there were an estimated 100,000 Gaelic speakers in Cape Breton." Source: here.

For a look at early Acadian settlements in Annapolis County, see here.