2004 Procession

In 2004, on 15 August--the Acadian national holiday, Jean Gaudet led a procession from Horton Landing (where Acadians had been loaded on to ships in 1755) to Grand-Pré three kilometres away, where they had been assembled before being forced to march to the waiting ships. This procession, in a sense, reversed the deportation and spoke to the survival of the Acadians. Although 2004 was the 400th anniversary of the founding of Acadie, this event (staged at the end of the Congrès mondial acadien) spoke to the legacy of the deportation.