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 ...

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.

ABBEVILLE, La. — Congrès Mondial Acadien, or Acadian World Congress, is an eight-to-10-day gathering to celebrate the Acadian heritage. "From 1755-1764, the British kicked them out of Canada, and many ...

MONCTON, NEW BRUNSWICK — For a century following deportation of the Acadians from Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, the Acadians in Louisiana and to the north kept a low profile, ...

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 ...

As they do every autumn, the hardy fishermen of little West Pubnico last week climbed into their boats and chugged away to the Bay of Fundy to reap a harvest of scallops. Behind them, on a mile-wide ...

WEDGEPORT, N.S. — After nine days in southwestern Nova Scotia, the 2024 Congrès mondial acadien (CMA) came to a powerful, emotional, and retrospective end inside a church in Wedgeport, Yarmouth County ...

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 ...

An 1882 newspaper illustration depicts a coffin that antiquarians reportedly dug up from the Acadian cemetery near the Grand Pré parish church, Saint-Charles-des-Mines.(Public Domain) Starting in the ...

Map of Nova Scotia made in 1755 by provincial chief surveyor Charles Morris British Library via Flickr under public domain When it’s mentioned in mainstream North American media, Nova Scotia tends to ...