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Kouchibouguac
Removal, Resistance, and Remembrance at a Canadian National Park
Ronald Rudin (Author)
9781442628403
Paperback / softback, published 14 March 2016
400 pages, 3 maps
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm, 0.6 kg
"Kouchibouguac is an excellent book, not only as a resource, but as enlightening reading for anyone with a social conscience. Ronald Rudin is to be applauded for his intensive and extensive research and his obvious concern for getting the Kouchibouguac story told properly and lucidly." ‘This is an important book that tells a story, we think we know, in a new and different way… A significant contribution to the regional and national history of Canada.’ ‘Historians, civil servants, students, and general public will find it a stimulating and valuable interpretation of the time and events.’
In 1969, the federal and New Brunswick governments created Kouchibouguac National Park on the province’s east coast. The park’s creation required the relocation of more than 1200 people who lived within its boundaries. Government officials claimed the mass eviction was necessary both to allow visitors to view “nature” without the intrusion of a human presence and to improve the lives of the former inhabitants. But unprecedented resistance by the mostly Acadian residents, many of whom described their expulsion from the park as a “second deportation,” led Parks Canada to end its practice of forcible removal. One resister, Jackie Vautour, remains a squatter on his land to this day. In Kouchibouguac, Ronald Rudin draws on extensive archival research, interviews with more than thirty of the displaced families, and a wide range of Acadian cultural creations to tell the story of the park’s establishment, the resistance of its residents, and the memory of that experience.
Prologue: On the Road Again Part I: Removal Chapter 1: People Before the Park Chapter 2: Planning Without People Chapter 3: Removal and Rehabilitation Part II: Resistance Chapter 4: Gone Fishing Chapter 5: The Acadian Freedom Fighter Part III: Remembrance Chapter 6: Art for a Cause Chapter 7: Reconciliation Epilogue: Chez Comeau