The first victims of the move to drive out the French were not even in Canada – but a peaceful population of Acadians in Nova Scotia who refused to swear an oath to the English King. In the late ...

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

This action by the British Parliament thwarts both Virginia's land-speculating gentry and land-seeking small farmers.

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 ...

The region is named after French settlers who, in the 1700s, were forcibly expelled by the British from an area in northeastern Canada, then called Acadia. Eventually, some of them relocated to ...

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 ...

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

This sweet dessert, which is a deep-fried dough square covered in powdered sugar, was first introduced to Louisiana in the 17th century by the French Acadians, who filled these fried fritters with ...

Knowing of Comeau Fink's Acadian roots — her parents were Comeaus who at one point lived in Comeauville, N.S. — and her regular trips to Nova Scotia, the French-Canadian receptionist wondered ...

This is the most New England story ever - a school teacher just accomplished such a cool, and satisfying goal.

Knowing of Comeau Fink's Acadian roots — her parents were Comeaus who at one point lived in Comeauville, N.S. — and her regular trips to Nova Scotia, the French-Canadian receptionist wondered if ...