CBU Press launching historical fiction Jeanne Dugas of Acadia
Four events in various corners of Cape Breton will launch our latest historical fiction this weekend.
Jeanne Dugas of Acadia author Cassie Deveaux Cohoon will be interviewed on CBC Radio One Cape Breton’s Information Morning on Friday (June 14) at 8:15.
The novel will be featured during the French Colonial History Society conference at Fortress of Louisbourg on Friday evening (14th); officially launched in Chéticamp on Sunday (16th) at La salle des retraités at 7 p.m.; a reading and discussion in St. Peter’s on Monday (17th) at 6:30 p.m. at the Nicolas Denys Museum and again at the Petit de Grat Library on Tuesday (18th) at 6:30 p.m.
Jeanne Dugas of Acadia is a true-life novel, fictionalized account of the remarkable life of one of the founding families of Chéticamp.
The title character was born of Acadian parents at Louisbourg in 1731. For more than thirty years, she and her husband, their family and extended families, lived under the threat of capture and deportation by the British militia and of attacks by pirates and privateers.
At various times the family lived in Louisbourg, Grand Pré (NS), Port Toulouse and Mira (Cape Breton), Île Saint-Jean (PEI), Remshic (NS), Restigouche (NB) and back again – sometimes more than once – before being captured and imprisoned on George’s Island (Halifax harbour), where three of their four children died.
When released, the family sought refuge on Île Madame (Cape Breton) and eventually found peace and permanence in the area now known as Chéticamp.
Written by Chéticamp native Cassie Deveaux Cohoon, Jeanne Dugas of Acadia is, in many ways, the story of the Acadians.
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