Acadian Deportation, Migration, and Resettlement Explanatory maps of Saint Croix & Acadia: Acadian Deportation, Migration, and Resettlement A view over Grand-Pré and Minas Basin.  in Fall 1755, more than 2,000 Acadians were deported from this area. “View of the Plundering and Burning of the City of Grimross” by Thomas Davies, 1758.  Davies’s eyewitness view shows