What follows is a story that has been more than two centuries in the making, but its telling will never get old. It begins in the early 1700s, with a settlement called Acadia in Canada, near Nova ...

Tucked along Bayou Vermilion, the Acadian Cultural Center preserves the story of the Acadians —French-speaking settlers expelled from Canada in the 18th century who rebuilt their lives in Louisiana.

For their refusal, thousands of men, women and children were forced onto ships and sent into exile. Their lands would be confiscated, and the Acadians would be scattered across Britain’s colonies, too ...

A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians From Their American Homeland, by John Mack Faragher, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 592 pages, $28.95 "Where is the ...

The ill-fated romance of the Acadian exile “Evangeline” was immortalized in Longfellow's poem of the same name in 1848, and national interest in Louisiana's Acadian population returned in 1879, when a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Explore the Acadian Cultural Center: Cajun heritage, exile, resilience, and music along Louisiana’s Bayou Vermilion.

There has been some question as to whether the word, “apology” should be used in connection with the royal proclamation issued by the British government concerning the expulsion of the Acadians from ...

Warren Perrin and the Acadian Heritage and Cultural Foundation Inc. in Erath received an unexpected yet welcome message from Buckingham Palace this week: The Queen’s thanks for a message from Perrin ...

Fete-Dieu du Teche, an all-day procession down the Bayou Teche that celebrates the arrival of the Acadians and 250th anniversary of St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church in St. Martinville, will be held ...

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 ...