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  2. History of the Acadians - Wikipedia

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    The history of the Acadians was significantly influenced by the six colonial wars that took place in Acadia during the 17th and 18th centuries (see the four French and Indian Wars, Father Rale's War and Father Le Loutre's War). Eventually, the last of the colonial wars—the French and Indian War —resulted in the British Expulsion of the ...

  3. Acadian literature - Wikipedia

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    The magazine Éloizes was founded in 1980 but disappeared in 2003. [12] It was replaced in 2005 by Ancrages , which ceased publication in 2007, although a new issue was published in 2012. There are only a few bookstores, mostly near the Université de Moncton campuses [ 24 ] (Edmundston, Moncton, and Shippagan) with a few more in towns like ...

  4. George Dorr - Wikipedia

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    George Bucknam Dorr (December 29, 1853 – August 5, 1944) was an American preservationist. Known as the "father of Acadia National Park," [1] he spent most of his adult life overseeing the park's formation and expansion. Charles William Eliot called the first meeting of what would evolve into the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations ...

  5. Acadians - Wikipedia

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    The Acadians (French: Acadiens; European French: [akadjɛ̃], Acadian French: [akad͡zjɛ̃]) are an ethnic group descended from the French who settled in the New France colony of Acadia during the 17th and 18th centuries. Today, most descendants of Acadians live in either the Northern American region of Acadia, where descendants of Acadians ...

  6. Evangeline - Wikipedia

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    Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie is an epic poem by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, written in English and published in 1847. The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel during the Expulsion of the Acadians (1755–1764). The idea for the poem came from Longfellow's friend Nathaniel ...

  7. Acadia - Wikipedia

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    Acadia (French: Acadie) was a colony of New France in northeastern North America which included parts of what are now the Maritime provinces, the Gaspé Peninsula and Maine to the Kennebec River. [1] The population of Acadia included the various indigenous First Nations that comprised the Wabanaki Confederacy, the Acadian people and other ...

  8. Acadian culture - Wikipedia

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    Acadian flag. The flag of Acadia, or the Starred Tricolor, was first proposed by Father Marcel-François Richard on August 15, 1884, during the second Acadian National Convention [fr] held in Miscouche, Prince Edward Island. [2] The flag was formally adopted the following day. The flag consist of the French flag with a golden star, or Stella ...

  9. Nicolas Denys - Wikipedia

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    Denys was a witness to one of the most unfortunate chapters of early Acadia's history: the rivalry between the Lords d’Aulnay and Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour, as it dissipated efforts to grow the colony. La Tour had claimed royal permission to ply the fur trade in the American Northeast.