The history of Acadians in New Brunswick is one of tenacity, starting with a 17th-century French settlement on Canada's east coast. Roman Catholic colonists from West-Central France arrived in the ...

Scholars from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Yale and Vanderbilt will discuss the history and culture of the Acadians during a symposium Thursday at Vermilionville. “The Path to a New ...

Maine and Louisiana have a unique bond — that of their Acadian heritage. The Acadians were among the original French settlers of North America. When Acadians refused to pledge allegiance to British ...

Morgan Landry wrote that he submitted his Jan. 8 letter to clarify Acadian history. Instead, by advancing an anti-immigrant agenda, he conflated different periods of our diaspora and added confusion.

ST. MARTIN PARISH — St. Martinville will be holding the La Fete Nationale de L'Acadie on Aug. 15–16 with a two-day festival celebrating the National Day of Acadians. The festival will be honoring the ...

An 1882 newspaper illustration depicts a coffin that antiquarians reportedly dug up from the Acadian cemetery near the Grand Pré parish church, Saint-Charles-des-Mines.(Public Domain) Starting in the ...

The author of “Like Snow Before Sun” loves historical fiction. “I love the idea of learning history through fiction,” said Pineville native Marianne Rabalais Sulser in a phone interview from her home ...