Acadians
French Canadian settlers
Acadians are descendants of French colonists who settled in Acadia—the Atlantic coastal region of Canada, including Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island—in the 17th and 18th centuries.
In 1755, British forces expelled thousands of Acadians from their homeland; many eventually settled in Louisiana, where their descendants became known as Cajuns.
Her family traces its Acadian roots back three hundred years.
Eastern Canadian maritime province
- New BrunswickEastern Canadian maritime province
- Prince Edward IslandCanadian Atlantic province
- MaritimesCanada's eastern coastal provinces
- Bay of FundyAtlantic inlet between provinces
Spicy Louisiana rice dish
- gumboSpiced Louisiana stew
- zydecoCreole roots music
- crawfishSmall freshwater lobster relative
- bayouMarshy, slow-moving waterway
étouffée · boudin · beignets · Evangeline · Lafayette · Louisiana · po'boy · andouille
Native speaker of French
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- lineageDescent from progenitors
- genealogyStudy of family descent
- descendantsThose who come after
ancestry · bloodline · kinship · forebears · Normandy · Breton · French colonial · settlers
Legal expulsion from country
- exileBanishment from homeland
- displacementRemoval from usual location
- forced migrationInvoluntary mass relocation
- uprootingExtracting from the earth
persecution · diaspora · scattering · dispersal · refugees · resettlement · survival · resilience
Nova Scotia
Eastern Canadian maritime province
- New BrunswickEastern Canadian maritime province
- Prince Edward IslandCanadian Atlantic province
- MaritimesCanada's eastern coastal provinces
jambalaya
Spicy Louisiana rice dish
bayou · étouffée · boudin · beignets · Evangeline · Lafayette · Louisiana · po'boy · andouille · patois
francophone
Native speaker of French
descendants · ancestry · bloodline · kinship · forebears · Normandy · Breton · French colonial · settlers · colonists
deportation
Legal expulsion from country
- exileBanishment from homeland
- displacementRemoval from usual location
- forced migrationInvoluntary mass relocation
uprooting · persecution · diaspora · scattering · dispersal · refugees · resettlement · survival · resilience · repatriation
- New Brunswickers
- CanadiansCeline Dion, Justin Bieber, Drake, Ryan Gosling, Jim Carrey
- Atlantic CanadaNova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Bay of Fundy, Fredericton
- Colonial LouisianaNew Orleans, Louisiana Purchase, French Quarter, colony, governors
- ethnic groupsJews, Arabs, Chinese, Irish, Greeks
- FrancophoneFrance, Paris, French language, French grammar, Canadian French
AcadiansQuébécois
Person from Quebec
Canadiens · habitants · French Canadians · Métis · Cajuns
- Acadia National ParkProtected coastal wilderness in Maine