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 ...

This year’s official poster for Festival des Acadians et Créoles commemorates the arrival of the Acadians to Louisiana. It shows settlers stepping ashore amid blue skies and cypress moss, with little ...

Laurie and John Rials wear it loud when it comes to where they're from. The retired couple from Port Allen, La., who are attending the World Acadian Congress on P.E.I., are clad in red shirts ...

If only the British knew more than 260 years ago the magical place they would inadvertently be helping create with their Le Grand Dérangement, or Great Expulsion, of Acadian people from Canada’s ...

Laurie and John Rials wear it loud when it comes to where they're from. The retired couple from Port Allen, La., who are attending the World Acadian Congress on P.E.I., are clad in red shirts ...

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 ...

LOREAUVILLE, La. (WAFB) - The small village of Loreauville has become ground zero for the beginning of Acadiana, the area of southwest Louisiana where exiled French Acadians settled and held onto ...

When the first boatload of Acadians came to Louisiana in February 1765, they were led by Joseph Beausoleil Broussard. Eight generations later, a Broussard descendant has helped compile a book that ...

Note: This story originally ran as part of the 250th anniversary of the Acadians arrival in Louisiana. There’s a real good chance Le Grand Derangement was the first episode of state-sanctioned ethnic ...

As we enjoy the academic and athletic successes of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, located in the center of the 22-parish area officially designated by the Louisiana Legislature in 1971 as ...