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French Connections:
New France & the Old Colony
By Jane L. Port
Curator of Collections, Pilgrim Society

An exhibition
May-June 2004

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French Connections
explores three New World encounters between the French and the residents of the Old Colony.

The first, a tale of adventure, is Frenchman Samuel de Champlain’s exploration of the New England coast.  The second encounter, a tale of romance, is the Cape Cod shipwreck of French physician/surgeon Francis LeBaron and his eventual acceptance into the small settlement of Plymouth.  The third is the tragic tale of the expulsion of thousands of French-speaking Acadians from their homes in Canada; ordered in 1755 by the British, the deed was dutifully (albeit uncomfortably) carried out by General John Winslow of Marshfield, Massachusetts.  


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