Oh, forgot this,

Roger also confirmed that he did the research, and there were many families split up and separated on the ships, but that also quite a number of the Acadian men escaped and did NOT go on the ships.

His intent at the time he wrote it was to remind the Acadien populace, that they do have a reasonable method of working with Federal government, and that here we didn't need the interference of outsiders with a more militant stance to come and take over from the more easy-going Acadiens.^^