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.
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, ...
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 ...
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A ceremony at the Skmaqn–Port-la-Joye–Fort Amherst National Historic site marked Acadian Remembrance Day on Saturday. The day ...
LOREAUVILLE, La. (KLFY) — Every five years, Le Grand Réveil Acadien (“The Great Acadian Awakening”) brings Cajuns and Acadians together to celebrate their shared French heritage. But this year, the ...
Some times, a place can be home, even if you’ve never been there before. There may be few Acadians left in Grand Pré, N.S., a rural hamlet outside of Wolfville in the fruitful hills of the Annapolis ...
An event commemorating the 250th anniversary of the arrival of the Acadians in Louisiana from Canada drew an overflow crowd to a room at the Old U.S. Mint in the French Quarter on Saturday. It’s a ...
As the Canadian market navigates through a mixed economic landscape, with resilient corporate profits and ongoing debates about interest rates, investors are keenly observing how different sectors ...
More than three centuries ago, Euclide Chiasson's ancestors boarded a ship in France and crossed the Atlantic Ocean to start a new life in the New World, in what is now known as Prince Edward Island.
Denny Richard of Parks Canada, Moncton Mayor Dawn Arnold, Bernard Theriault of the Historic Sites and Monument Board of Canada, Moncton MP and Veterans Affairs Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor, and ...