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b'This episode is the first in a three-episode series of \\u201cChronicles of A Spy in Acadia\\u201d: a student-produced podcast researched, written, recorded and edited by the students of Brock University\\u2019s History 4P11 State and Society in Colonial Canada class.\\nThe podcast centers on Atlantic colonial Canada in the 18th century by looking at the events through the eyes of a real-life historical spy: Thomas Pichon. Thomas Pichon was a French man sent to take on a legislative position in the military Fort of Beausejour in 18th century Acadia (present-day Nova Scotia). Eager for money and prestige, however, in 1754 he was recruited to spy for the British and played a pivotal role in the French-Acadian defeat at the 1755 Siege of Beausejour.\\nThis episode gives listeners a front row seat to history students interviewing \\u201cthe ghost\\u201d of Thomas Pichon about the events of 1755 and Pichon\\u2019s life leading up to it. Pichon was known to exaggerate and be a man invested in his own self-interests, and his character beyond the grave is hardly estranged from that.\\nFilled with quotations from Pichon\\u2019s genuine letters and memoirs published after his death, listeners get a chance to not only see the true thoughts and motivations of Pichon as he betrayed France and the Acadians, but also to better understand the events that made Canada into the country it is today.\\n\\xa0\\nLinks\\nBeaubassin: On the Edge of Empires\\n@CBCNovaScotia Centuries-old cannonballs detonated in Gagetown, N.B. (Tweet) Nov. 19, 2021.\\nBrock University Department of History\\n\\xa0\\nSources\\nCrowley, T.A. \\u201cBiography: PICHON, THOMAS, Thomas Tyrell,\\u201d Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto, 1979.\\nWebster, John Clarence. Thomas Pichon \\u201cThe Spy of Beausejour,\\u201d An Account of His Career in Europe and America with Many Original Documents. Translated by Alice Webster. Shediac, NB: 1937.\\n\\xa0\\nCredits\\nInterviewer 1- YannickInterviewer 2- MicaylaNarrator- ErinGhost of Thomas Pichon- Dexter'