Tyler LeBlanc

I'm an author, a screenwriter, and a storyteller. I was born and raised in a small Anglophone fishing village on Nova Scotia’s south shore, entirely unaware of my Acadian heritage until a few years ago. It was this dissonance with my own family's identity that inspired the creation of Acadian Driftwood.

Told through the eyes of my Acadian ancestors on their journey through the horrors of the eighteenth-century deportations that scattered them across the globe and almost destroyed their culture, it is an account of a dark chapter in Canada’s history and a tale of discovery — discovery of heritage, of family, and, ultimately, of identity.

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