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A powerful example of the depth of the Acadian connection to the land now called Nova Scotia:
Ready for a story of a dear friend of Novacadie and his on-going engagement in rectifying a rural Nova Scotia unfortunate mistake of the past.
Follow us in his journey; one of contributing in a way, to healing the wounds of yet, another group of men unjustly treated by his own kind;
Indeed, along with the First People, the ACADIANS we know, have definitely suffered the loss of the spirit of a thriving tightly knit community, the use of their land, but even the simple memory of several well-established passed placenames right here in Nova Scotia's Acadie.
Read this article about a beautiful river that kept its infinite course but...lost its accurate name over time:
Herbert River’s identity crisis: Just the difference of a letter separates river from its Acadian heritage | SaltWire
Bravo Mike Hébert !
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Following is a nice portrait of the life of a 'resistance' Acadian hero-
Joseph dit 'Beausoleil' Broussard
..as narrated by scholar Acadian history reference Ronald Labelle:
Acadian Culture with Ronald LaBelle: The swashbuckling tale of Beausoleil Broussard | Information Morning - Cape Breton with Steve Sutherland | Live Radio | CBC Listen
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We offer the opportunity to experience the exact locations where the forefathers landed and transplanted seventeenth century France into the new lands of this continent. New France begins here in Acadie!
We owe so much to fascinating historical figures like Pierre DuGua DeMons, Champlain, Poutrincourt and their companions, who have left us documented evidence of our noble beginings as a people of Canada.
Indeed, we can rejoice at the fact that the French explorers and fellow artisans established a good relationship between themselves as 'new settlers' in a totally different environment. Amazingly, friendly rapports are borned between themselves; the visitors and the Natives form a sensibly compatible community of sorts. The French's Native hosts would rapidly bring on, equal partnering and sharing of the land and waterways. Wonderfully, it contributed to an everlasting alliances in the future. ...That was until 1755.
As most people around the globe will attest, nothing could ever bring people closer together then to share great food and hospitality at once! In Canada, this historical pride has a name, it started here in Port Royal by the sieur de Champlain himself! It was called; ''l'Ordre du Bon Temps'' or "The Order of Good Cheer"


Four centuries after its creation, one can still embrace the human principles of solidarity as well as the joy of becoming a "member" of the oldest social club in North America. Receive your personalized certificates when you attend with Novacadie Tours!
Do you know?
The Acadian parishes during the 'Golden Age' of Acadie:
Church Parishes of Greater Acadia before Le Grand Dérangement
According to André-Carl Vachon, "Laval, François de," in DCB, 2:370, & online, ecclesiastical parishes in New France were not formally created until after May 1679, when King Louis XIV issued a decree authorizing the Bishop of Québec to create them. Before that, the habitants of New France, including those in Acadia, were served in their settlements by traveling missionaries, not resident priests. White,DGFA-1, xvii-xxii; & White, DGFA-1 English, xxv-xxxii, provide the "foundation" dates of parishes in greater Acadia, beginning with Port-Royal in 1636 and ending with Rivière-du-Nord-Est and Pointe-Prime, on Île St.-Jean, in 1752. For a fine map of Acadian churches before the Exile, see <acadian-cajun.com/religion.htm>:
Port-Royal/Annapolis Royal
St.-Jean-Baptiste, Port-Royal (lower river)
St.-Laurent, Port-Royal (upper river)
See a topographic map of the Acadian settlements based on French cartographer Delabat's map circa 1707: (courtesy of Map Annapolis)
http://mapannapolis.ca/acadian-settlements/
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Chignecto/Baie-Verte
Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Secours or Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption-de-la-Trés-Ste.-Vierge,
Beaubassin
St.-Louis, Pointe-de-Beauséjour
Ste.-Anne, Tintamarre
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Minas
St.-Charles-des-Mines, Grand-Pré
St.-Joseph-des-Mines, Rivière-aux-Canards
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Pigiguit
Sainte-Famille (west side of the river)
Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption (east side of the river)
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Cobeguit:
St-Pierre et-St-Paul
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Cap-Sable
Ste.-Anne, Cheboque/Cap-Sable
Notre-Dame, Pobomcoup/Pubnico
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Trois-Rivières/Chepoudy, Petitcoudiac, Memramcook
Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation or Notre-Dame-des-Neiges, Chepoudy
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Pentagöuet/Maine
Ste.-Famille
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Rivière St.-Jean/Nashouat, Médoctec
Ste.-Anne
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Îsle St. Jean
St.-Jean-l'Evangéliste, Port-Lajoie
St.-Pierre, St.-Pierre-du-Nord
Ste.-Famille, Malpèque
St.-Louis, Rivière-du-Nord-Est
St.-Paul, Pointe-Prime
Note: 1752 - L’île Saint-Jean compte 2 223 habitants français et acadiens ...
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Îsle Royale
Nouvelle-France: colonie de Louisbourg (1713-1758) (ulaval.ca)
Notre-Dame-des-Anges, Louisbourg
Hôpital, Louisbourg
St.-Pierre,
Port-Toulouse
Ste.-Claire,
Petit-Dégrat
Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Secours,
Port d'Orléans/Niganiche
Ste.-Anne, Port-Dauphin
Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Secours,
La Baleine
Ste.-Claire,
Lorembec
St.-Esprit,
About Acadie
It was brought to my attention many times during my career as a Heritage guide, that the History pertaining to the Acadian culture, to previous generations of French Louisianians, may not have been carried out thoroughly, by the school institutions, if it was at all...
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So, this little text aimed at presenting a condensed overview of this special place that exists in the hearts of millions all over the world. This Acadie of a new millennium and all its inheritance reveals itself to the world with its prettiest charms...
A place so mysteriously beautiful and yet so unknown…
If you will, come with me and let's open the book of time as we glimpse at Acadie's very beginnings, to present days;
It is on the Nova Scotia peninsula that we see the first signs of its existence, well over 400 years ago. This magnificent and most easterly province of the Canadian Maritimes is where the first French explorers, gentlemen and artisans have landed all the hopes of their hearts and undertook to start all over, in the "New World"... To be precise, after nearly two months of travel on rough seas, La Have, Nova Scotia is where the men kneeled and embraced the soil, for they had finally touched what until then, was but a dream...
Regardless of the names given at various epoch, the territory remains the same, the mysterious beauty of Acadie shines like a star in the ages...
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As little as we know on the Mi'kmaq Culture, we now know that these people are descendants of the Paleo-Indian. People who have left us, beneath layers of earth by the Bay
of Cobequit, N.S. artefacts dating to 10,600 years back in time.
(Débert, N.S.) Their organized presence in this region of America this far back in time made the scholars rethink the notions of the "old" versus the "new" world... Somehow, for you and I, knowing their heritage to be ever so deeply rooted in time through immemorial traditions and relations with the land, surely has to make us save a special place for the Aboriginals.
The French people will most definitely learn from observing them in their customs and lifestyles. Located in parts of Maine, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick Prince Edward Island (see text below) and the Gaspé Peninsula, the Mi'kmaws form a "family" or tribe of the Grand Algonkian Nation. In a uniquely spoken language, they referred their areas in specific terms of their own.
Read this wonderful reference regarding the context of Life-in-Acadie on superb Isle Saint-Jean (P.E.I) and the Deportation of 1758
http://libraries.danieljosephsamson.com/ilse-st-jean-the-expulsion-of-1758--/1-acadian-background?path=index
Unraveling the Colonialist Myths of Nova Scotia | History | Smithsonian Magazine
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