History Professor: Jackie Vautour

Jackie Vautour: MONTREAL - A history professor is giving voice to the former residents of a tiny New Brunswick community whose expulsions changed forever the way Canada's national parks are created. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. About 250 families around 1,200 people were displaced for the park because of a belief at the time that visitors wouldn't be able to appreciate nature if there were humans living in the area. Acadians, who made up the bulk of the residents, called the explusions "a second deportation." Jackie Vautour bald, behind the stove talks strategy with friends in his tiny hut in Kouchibouguac National Park, N.B. on April 3, 1980. Vautour expects police will move in shortly to remove him from the park. The Supreme Court of Canada recently turned down his request for an appeal of his land expropriation case. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tim Clark Ronald Rudin, a professor at Montreal's Concordia University, is using a combination of traditional and new media to revisit the controversy over the creation of Kouchibouguac National Park in 1969, a story he says has been largely forgotten. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.