1755 (pronounced seventeen fifty-five) is an Acadian band formed by , , , and . The band was named after the Great Deportation of 1755, during which Acadians were deported from Acadia (present day Maritimes), and was active from 1975 to 1984. After they broke up, every member of the band went on to work on solo albums, or joined new bands such as Les Méchants Maquereaux. Herménégilde Chiasson wrote that 1755 was "much more than a band" but rather "the chant of a generation" and that their songs and lyrics remain the "testimony of a period of tension and affirmation".