Posted by Ultradog MN on January 30, 2012 at 04:18:13 from (70.56.167.37):
In Reply to: Why here?? posted by flying belgian on January 29, 2012 at 20:35:57:
Simple. There was an entire continent free for the taking. The Lemires came here fairly early, about 1650 or so and settled in what is now Nova Scotia. They lived in Acadia and fought in the numerous wars between the French and English for supremacy over the continent. Acadia traded hands between the English and French several times but the people there always remained loyal to their Catholic priests and to France. In about 1715 or so King George finally forced France to give up it's holdings in North America but the Acadians would not swear alliegence to England. George's ministers were afraid of having those stubborn French Catholics on his flanks so George had his soldiers go in and burn the villages and farmsteads to the ground and disperse all the people. Some of the Acadians went to New orleans which was still French owned. Some went to Quebec and Montreal, swore allegience to the English kings and went on with farming and raising families. Those were times when land was cheap and fertilization, crop rotation and other modern farming techniques were unknown. So like many of the white settlers of that era they kept moving west in search of productive land. Over the next hundred and 25 years they kept moving as civilization pressed westward - usually by way of French cities - Detroit, Sault Ste Marie, Terre Haute etc. till by 1860 or so my great, great grandfather Francois Lemire had reached Sommerset Wisconsin. He married there and they had 12 children. When his wife died he remarried and had 13 more children. One of the first family, Benjamin, bought land from the railroad in Aitkin Mn and that is where I came from. The Acadians that moved to New Orleans didn't fare as well as they were considered too rustic for polite company and were somewhat shunned by the locals. As is well known the term Cajun is a mix of the words Acadian and injun and says something about the low lifestyles of that group. And perhaps they did earn the scorn shown them as there was a Lemire, a crew man of Jean Laffitte's who was hanged by the US government for fillibustering (piracy) about 1820 or so. But I'd better not write any more as you all will accuse ME of fillibustering.
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