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Acadia is a North American cultural region in the Maritime provinces of Canada where approximately 300,000 French-speaking Acadians live. [1] The region lacks clear or formal borders; it is usually considered to be the north and east of New Brunswick as well as a few isolated localities in Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia .
Map Acadia Parish: 001: Crowley: 1886: from part of St. Landry Parish. From Acadian French. Named for the Acadians who settled the area. 56,489: 658 sq mi (1,704 km 2) Allen Parish: 003: Oberlin: 1912: from part of Calcasieu Parish. Henry Watkins Allen, the Confederate governor of Louisiana: 22,112: 766 sq mi (1,984 km 2) Ascension Parish: 005 ...
The following 26 pages use this file: Acadia Parish, Louisiana; Basile, Louisiana; Branch, Louisiana; Church Point, Louisiana; Crowley, Louisiana; Duson, Louisiana
Acadia Parish (French: Paroisse de l'Acadie) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. At the 2020 U.S. census , the population was 57,576. [ 1 ] The parish seat and the most populous municipality is Crowley . [ 2 ]
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. [6] The population of Acadia included the various indigenous First Nations that comprised the Wabanaki Confederacy, the Acadian people and other ...
Acadiana (/ ɑː r ˈ k eɪ d i ə n ə /; French and Louisiana French: L'Acadiane or Acadiane), also known as Cajun Country (Louisiana French: Pays des Cadiens), is the official name given to the French Louisiana region that has historically contained much of the state's Francophone population.
Morse is a village in Acadia Parish, Louisiana, United States.The population was 812 at the 2010 census. [2] It is part of the Crowley Micropolitan Statistical Area.. Laid out in 1898 on land owned by J. M. Crabtree, [3] Morse was settled by farmers from Illinois and Iowa and incorporated as a village in 1906.
The governance of the French colony of Acadia has a long and tangled history. Founded in 1603 by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Monts, the territory of Acadia (roughly, the present-day Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, and portions of the U. S. state of Maine) was hotly contested in the 17th century.