Long before Broussard became home to oil field service companies along U.S. 90, early Acadian settlers had an intriguing name for the region: Côte Gelée, which means Frozen Hills or ...

Some of the original Acadian settlers are represented in portraits of their descendants that will be on display as part of the 16th Acadian Memorial Heritage Festival in St. Martinville this weekend.

"Belle-Ile in Acadie" opens with an image of a map of Eastern Canada overlaid with text describing the expulsion of Acadians in 1755 from Acadia.

Mass pays homage to Acadian settlers. ... Bishop Sam Jacobs will head an Acadian Mass scheduled for 6 p.m. Aug. 15 at St. Hilary of Poitiers Catholic Church, 333 Twin Oaks Drive, Mathews.

About 250 years ago, the very first Acadian settlers arrived in South Louisiana to start a new homeland after being exiled from Nova Scotia. Today, the site of that mass deportation is a World ...

Middle and High School students in St. Martinville researched the lives of the Acadian children who arrived in Louisiana after being forced from their farms in Nova Scotia by the English in 1755.

A small memorial and museum in St. Martinville has become something of a pilgrimage for people who feel they have a family connection to Louisiana’s earliest Acadian settlers.

From the French settlers of the 17th and 18th centuries, exchanges with Indigenous populations, to le grand derangement (1755-1764) and the resulting Acadian diaspora; he started with his own ...

HALIFAX — Three organizations that represent Acadians in Atlantic Canada are proposing that the Chignecto Isthmus be turned into a national park. The proposal is contained in a brief submitted ...

In Canada, Acadian descendants and the Mi’kmaq remember when they gathered to celebrate the harvest – and “good cheer.” ...

As descendents of French settlers in what is now considered New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and P.E.I., Acadians have fought for space and recognition since the Expulsion in 1755, when the British ...