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 ...

I was interested in the article in The Daily Advertiser Feb. 1, by Joanna Brown, "As Cajuns, 'we cannot close our home to the refugees,'" and wanted to add some historical information that ...

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.

The Acadians sure were a scrappy lot. Sent by France in 1604 to create the colony of Acadia in an area known today as the Canadian Maritime Provinces (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward ...

(Coastal Living) -- The story of the Acadians usually starts in the middle, with the Great Upheaval. The real beginning came with the early-1600s arrival of French Catholic settlers in the land that ...

MAN is a lover and maker of myths. From prejudice, from chivalry, from patriotism, from mental sloth, from sheer inability to know the thing which is, and tell a plain tale, neither adding nor abating ...

ANNAPOLIS ROYAL, NOVA SCOTIA -- The tall ship Europa glides gracefully up Nova Scotia's Annapolis River. High aloft her crew furls the massive sails like a 10-story swan folding her wings. Welcoming ...

It seems, or at least appears to be, that the bulk of the population is on the side of immigrants entering the state illegally. I do believe that some appear to think that the Acadian ancestors came ...