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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 ...
Acadian literature is literature produced in Acadia, [Note 1] or considered as such. The colonial period was characterized by a scarcity of textual production, largely attributable to the challenging socio-economic circumstances prevailing at the time. The poem Evangeline by American Henry Longfellow exerted a considerable influence on the ...
29MNS0002. Location of Grand-Pré National Historic Site in Nova Scotia. Grand-Pré National Historic Site is a park set aside to commemorate the Grand-Pré area of Nova Scotia as a centre of Acadian settlement from 1682 to 1755, and the British deportation of the Acadians that happened during the French and Indian War.
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 ...
Philippe Mius d’Entremont was born in Normandy, France, and he was expelled out of France because of who his daughter married [citation needed] and was sent to Acadia with his family in 1651 as a lieutenant-major with Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour, who had been named Governor of Acadia by Louis XIII of France first in 1631, and again by Louis XIV in 1651.
Acadia was located in what is now Eastern Canada's Maritime provinces, as well as parts of Quebec and present-day Maine to the Kennebec River. It was ethnically, geographically and administratively different from the other French colonies such as the French colony of Canada. As a result, the Acadians developed a distinct history and culture. [8]
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 ...
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 ...