 Although often believed solely responsible for carrying out the deportation, Winslow was in charge of only one segment of a much larger operation.On 5 September 1755 he informed the assembled Acadian men that they and their families were to be removed from the province.Winslow termed the business "Very Disagreable to my natural make & Temper," in his "Journal of Colonel John Winslow of the provincial troops, while engaged in removing the Acadian inhabitants from Grand Pre".