Menus & Cuisines
On that last night before the “unsinkable” Titanic hit an iceberg, its second-class passengers were served a traditional full Edwardian meal. A menu card from this meal, saved by Mrs J. Bertha Marshall (née Watt), is in the collections of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK.
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Menus & Cuisines
More than 14,000 Acadians were deported from Acadia (now the Maritime Provinces of Canada) in the Grand Dérangement of 1755, when they refused to swear allegiance to the British Crown. Eventually, in 1764, Acadians were allowed to return to Acadia, but with such restrictions placed on their freedom by the British that many chose not [...]
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