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 ...

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 ...

Morgan Landry wrote that he submitted his Jan. 8 letter to clarify Acadian history. Instead, by advancing an anti-immigrant agenda, he conflated different periods of our diaspora and added confusion.

(Coastal Living) -- The story of the Acadians usually starts in the middle, with the Great Upheaval. The real beginning came with the early-1600s arrival of French Catholic settlers in the land 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 ...

There’s a particular stretch of Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley where the past feels unusually close. The dyked farmlands, the ...

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 ...

This year, we celebrate the 250th anniversary of a significant event in the history of America and of Louisiana. The year was 1765. To the great surprise of the French officers in charge of the colony ...

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 ...

If you have wondered why some Franco-Americans have blond hair and blue eyes, or why early Acadian settlers in North America built homes of square-hewn logs, historian Don Cyr of Lille has some ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. French-Acadians scattered throughout the world are honored by Bangor ...