A Royal Apology
On December 9, 2003, a Royal Proclamation was signed in Canada wherein Queen Elizabeth II acknowledged for the first time the wrongs committed in the name of the English Crown during the Acadian deportation of 1755.
The Royal Proclamation set July 28th of every year, beginning in 2005, as “a day of commemoration of the Great Upheaval.”
The Fête nationale de l'Acadie / National Acadian Day is observed yearly on August 15, celebrating Acadian culture. In 1881 during the First Annual National Convention, in Memramcook, NB, Acadian leaders received the mandate to set the date of this celebration.
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