Royal Proclamation of 2003

The Royal Proclamation of 2003, formally known as Proclamation Designating 28 July of Every Year as "A Day of Commemoration of the Great Upheaval", Commencing on 28 July 2005, is a document issued in the name of Queen Elizabeth II acknowledging the Great Upheaval (or Great Expulsion or Grand Dérangement), Britain's expulsion of the Acadian settlers from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, under a deportation order issued by King George II on 28 July 1755.^[1]

The Royal Proclamation of 2003 was made on 31 December 2003, with the 28 July 2005 designation for the first annual Day of Commemoration chosen to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the signing of the deportation order.