Acadians who died during 18th century deportations remembered at Rocky Point ceremony

A ceremony at the Skmaqn–Port-la-Joye–Fort Amherst National Historic site marked Acadian Remembrance Day on Saturday. The day ...
The News-Star

250 years: Who were these Acadians, anyway?

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 ...
National Catholic Register

To Mary With Love, From the Acadians

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 ...
Houston Chronicle

Acadians follow their forefathers' pilgrimage in a tall ship

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 ...
The Daily Advertiser

Perrin: The parallels between Acadians and today's refugees

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 Atlantic

Evangeline and the Real Acadians

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 ...