It’s been 250 years since Acadians first arrived in a region that would one day bear their name: Acadiana. In honor of this, the Grand Réveil Acadien (The Acadian Awakening), is now underway through ...

Acadians who died during deportations to France in the mid-18th century are remembered annually in P.E.I. A ceremony commemorating the deceased Acadians occurred at the Skmaqn–Port-la-Joye–Fort ...

“Acadie Then and Now: A People’s History,” a new book from Opelousas’ Andrepont Printing has just been released but is already taking the Acadian world by storm. “When we released this in Canada it ...

I was interested in the article in The Daily Advertiser Feb. 1, by Joanna Brown, "As Cajuns, 'we cannot close our home to the refugees,'" and wanted to add some historical information that ...

The Acadians sure were a scrappy lot. Sent by France in 1604 to create the colony of Acadia in an area known today as the Canadian Maritime Provinces (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward ...

In January 1990, I prepared a petition and had it delivered to the British Crown. The petition sought a formal apology for their role 265 years ago in the 1755 deportation of 18,000 Acadians from Nova ...

MAN is a lover and maker of myths. From prejudice, from chivalry, from patriotism, from mental sloth, from sheer inability to know the thing which is, and tell a plain tale, neither adding nor abating ...

ANNAPOLIS ROYAL, NOVA SCOTIA -- The tall ship Europa glides gracefully up Nova Scotia's Annapolis River. High aloft her crew furls the massive sails like a 10-story swan folding her wings. Welcoming ...

Gerard Bourassa is right! ("City is ripe for a centennial exhibit of Franco-American history," Aug. 31). It is the Franco-American community's turn to step up and take its official place among many ...