ON A MISSION TO SAVE IT. AROOSTOOK COUNTY IS A LONG WAY FROM ANYWHERE, AND THAT ALLOWS FOR A CERTAIN FREEDOM. AN AMISH COMMUNITY HAS TAKEN ROOT IN RECENT DECADES, AND OLD TRADITIONS LIVE ON HERE, ...

ERATH — It was French that attracted the Acadians to Louisiana. After years of imprisonment, Joseph Beausoleil Broussard brought his band of Acadians to the West Indies and then followed his people's ...

As Acadiana and Louisiana prepare to celebrate Veterans Day on Friday, similar ceremonies will be taking place in Canada. And in the Canadian Maritime provinces, that's not where the similarities end.

Faragher relates, in all its complex, searingly sad details, the story of how the hapless French Acadians were run out of their Nova Scotia homes—a story known to most from Longfellow's Evangeline.

Notes: In this essay, James Kences documents the Great Upheaval or Great Derangement, the forced removal of the French from the Canadian Maritimes in 1755, which occurred just as the British and ...