One of l’Acadie’s most influential groups, named after the first year of the Great Deportation from what would become the Maritime provinces, is calling it a night after 50 years in the music business ...

Râpure originated among the Acadians who returned to Eastern Canada after the end of the Acadian expulsion which lasted from 1755 to 1778. During their exile, they had interfaced with various cultures ...

Faragher relates, in all its complex, searingly sad details, the story of how the hapless French Acadians were run out of their Nova Scotia homes—a story known to most from Longfellow's Evangeline.

Thursday was a national day of celebration and remembrance for people with ties to the Acadian community. Since 1955, Aug. 15 has been marked by a ceremony at the Grand Pre national historic site.

On the eve of a war that will engulf the world the British government agrees with a plan to extinguish a people In 1755 English colonial officials forcibly expel close to 10000 Frenchspeaking Acadians ...