1. A. Shortt, V.K. Johnston, and G. Lanctot, Documents Relating to Currency, Exchange and Finance in Nova Scotia, with Prefatory Documents, 1675-1758 (Ottawa: J.O. Patenaude1933 ) 318 -20 . The title pharse of this essay is from M. Franklin to the Board of Trade, 30 September 1766, cited by
2. J. B. Brebner, The Neutral Yankees of Nova Scotia (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart1969 ) 124 .
3. 3The literature on the expulsion of the Acadians in enormous; here as in what follows citations are generally to recent work; older items are cited for quotations and if they bear special relevance to specific points in the text. The most geographical account of the deportation remains R. G. Le Blanc ‘The Acadian migrations’Minnesota Acaddemy of Science, Proceedings30 (1962) 55-69, published in revised form inCahiers de geographie de Quebec24 (December 1967) 523-41.