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The Vikings at L'Anse aux Meadows: Proof the Norse Reached Canada 500 Years Before Columbus

A grassy cove at the tip of Newfoundland held the answer to a thousand year old question. How the Norse reached Canada around the year 1000, what they built, the evidence they left, and the tree ring study that dated their axes to the exact year 1021.

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Before Confederation · 1755

The Expulsion of the Acadians: Why 11,500 People Were Deported From Their Own Farms in 1755

In 1755 British authorities deported the Acadians, a farming people who had lived in the Maritimes for five generations. The oath they would not swear, the order read aloud in the church at Grand Pré, the ships, the deaths, and the long road home.

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