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By 1755, the uneasy truce between the British ruling authorities and the French colonists living in Acadia was [[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/the-deportation-of-the-acadians-feature#:~:text=Between%201755%20and%201763%2C%20approximately,in%20France%20or%20the%20Caribbean.&text=Back%20in%20Nova%20Scotia%2C%20the,by%20settlers%20from%20New%20England.| shattered]]. The French colonists began moving to Acadia (modern-day Nova Scotia) in 1604, and it remained in French hands until the signing of The Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. The treaty handed Acadia over to Great Britain. Despite the shift, the French colonists remained in Acadia. Despite handing over Acadia to the British, starting the 1830s, tensions between France and Britain begin to rise slowly. Both France and Britain begin building forts in the regions surrounding Acadia.

By 1755, British Governor Charles Lawrence decided that the French Acadians represented a significant risk to the British colony. After the French colonists refused to pledge an oath to Britain, Lawrence decided to deport the colonists from the territory. Lawrence seized all of the colonists' property, burned their crops, and forced the colonists at the point of bayonets to board ships bound for the southern British colonies. In the first wave of deportations, over 1,000 Acadians were deported. This forced exodus continued until 1763. Bu 1763, over 10,000 Acadians were forcibly deported by the British. Thousands of the Acadians died [[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/the-deportation-of-the-acadians-feature#:~:text=Between%201755%20and%201763%2C%20approximately,in%20France%20or%20the%20Caribbean.&text=Back%20in%20Nova%20Scotia%2C%20the,by%20settlers%20from%20New%20England.| during this deportation]].