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 ...

Notes: In this essay, James Kences documents the Great Upheaval or Great Derangement, the forced removal of the French from the Canadian Maritimes in 1755, which occurred just as the British and ...

Fingers ran up and down the names of Acadian families who lived in Nova Scotia between 1700 and 1755 Monday, August 9 , 2004 at the Grand-Pre National Historic Site of Canada. The site commemorates ...

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 ...