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Before there were Cajuns cooking in Louisiana, there were Acadians trying to survive in a colony caught between two empires.

This week, Jamie and Leo head to early North America to unpack how a quiet French settlement called Acadia (in what is now Nova Scotia) became a political tug-of-war between France and Britain (and how ordinary families ended up paying the price).

As control of the territory shifted, loyalty oaths were demanded, trust evaporated, and in 1755 the British began forcibly deporting thousands of Acadians from their homes in what became known as The Great Expul ...