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Expulsion Hist. 
n. the mass deportations in 1755 of French Acadians who refused to take an unconditional oath of allegiance to the British flag.
- 1950 Masstown was once an Acadian village called "cobequid," and the Acadians had a large place of worship there, the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul. It was burned at the time of the Expulsion. . . .
- 1963 Today, the Acadians' only popular preference in art are paintings and prints of the Expulsion, which is also the source for their melancholy folk songs.
- 1950 Masstown was once an Acadian village called "cobequid," and the Acadians had a large place of worship there, the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul. It was burned at the time of the Expulsion. . . .