Lawrence was advised after the exile, that quite a large number of Acadians were at La Have so he sent a ship there All the population that remained was transported to Halifax, put in dungeons and, four months later shipped to England. New cruelties must have been committed there, since we find the proof in a letter from General Amherst to Lawrence, indicating his disapproval of such conduct. He pointed out that a certain Captain Hazen was the principal guilty person, and added: "I shall always disapprove of killing innocent women and children."

A wise nation preserves its records, gathers up its muniments, decorates the tombs of its illustrious dead, repairs its great public structures, and fosters national pride and love of country, by perpetual references to sacrifices and glories of the past." -- Howe

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"We are the chosen. My feelings are in each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again, to tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. To me, doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes.

"Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do.