Doucet, who is originally from the Clare, N.S., area, was trying to order in French. But there was a problem. With Doucet's ...

French soldiers, like twenty-one-year-old Antoine ... René-Amable Boucher de Boucherville. And some Acadians were there as well. Charles Deschamps de Boishébert, who spent two years protecting ...

Acadia has been handed back and forth between France and England at least six times. The treaties gave it two names at once: "Acadia or Nova Scotia". In 1713, Acadia was finally ceded to England ...

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The dominant regional culture of south Louisiana results from successive waves of French (Canadian traders, Acadians from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, French royalists, Bonapartists, apolitical ...

On World Cafe's new monthly series, Acadiana Music Spotlight, you'll get to explore this vibrant cultural melting pot through ...

The state is a gumbo of varied cultures, predominantly Cajun—people whose ancestors were French-speaking Acadians from Canada—and Creole, which includes those with French, Spanish, Caribbean, African, ...

Today, in keeping with their values, Acadian communities will showcase their ... and strengthen the role of the French language from coast to coast to coast. "Today, I encourage all Canadians ...

See how American Indians; colonists from France, Spain and Britain; enslaved Africans and Acadians from Nova Scotia—eventually known as Cajuns—populated and cultivated Louisiana, shaping it ...

On February 26, 1919, Mount Desert Island became a national park. It was eventually named Acadia, the French word for "heaven on earth." George Dorr was immediately named superintendent ...

When Francine hit Terrebonne Parish in Louisiana Wednesday, it did so as a Category 2 hurricane dumping water across the ...

where people from all over the world are celebrating the Acadian culture. This week, Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser, the Council for the Development of French Louisiana and a Louisiana ...