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Modern flag of Acadia, adopted 1884. The Acadians (French: Acadiens) are the descendants of 17th and 18th century French settlers in parts of Acadia (French: Acadie) in the northeastern region of North America comprising what is now the Canadian Maritime Provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, the Gaspé peninsula in eastern Québec, and the Kennebec River in southern ...
The Acadians are descendants of 17th and 18th-century French settlers from southwestern France, primarily in the region historically known as Occitania. [1] They established communities in Acadia, a northeastern area of North America, encompassing present-day Canadian Maritime Provinces (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island), parts of Québec, and southern Maine.
The Acadian Diaspora: An Eighteenth-Century History (Oxford University Press; 2012) 260 pages online review by Kenneth Banks Jobb, Dean. The Acadians: A People's Story of Exile and Triumph , John Wiley & Sons, 2005 (published in the United States as The Cajuns: A People's Story of Exile and Triumph ) [ ISBN missing ]
In Quebec, the term Cadie or Petite Cadie refers to a town or region where Acadians have settled. The term is thought to have derived from Acadia and to have ancient roots, later becoming popularized by historians such as Raymond Casgrain, Antoine Bernard [], Robert Rumilly [], Napoléon Bourassa, and Eugène Achard []. [6]
Two works mark a turning point in the Acadian Renaissance, the most significant being the poem Evangeline, published by the American Henry Longfellow in 1847. The Acadians see themselves reflected in this story, with the fictional couple Evangeline and Gabriel symbolizing, in a way, the history of the Acadians — their dispersion as well as ...
The Expulsion of the Acadians [b] was the forced removal [c] of inhabitants of the North American region historically known as Acadia between 1755 and 1764 by Great Britain.It included the modern Canadian Maritime provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, along with part of the US state of Maine.
The history of Acadia was significantly influenced by the great power conflict between France and England, later Great Britain, that occurred in the 17th and 18th centuries. [13] Prior to the arrival of Europeans, the Mi'kmaq had been living in Acadia for at least two to three thousand years. [ 16 ]
1524 - Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine in the service of the King Francis I of France explores the East coast of North America from Florida to Newfoundland as well as parts of New York Harbor. The French would take narrow land ports of the Boroughs Queens and Brooklyn from the upper and lower parts of the harbor until 1609 when the British ...