Fete-Dieu du Teche, an all-day procession down the Bayou Teche that celebrates the arrival of the Acadians and 250th anniversary of St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church in St. Martinville, will be held ...

It’s been called the Cajun “lost colony,” the area where the earliest Acadian exiles settled in south Louisiana in the 1700s after being expelled by the British from what is now Nova Scotia. Despite ...

What follows is a story that has been more than two centuries in the making, but its telling will never get old. It begins in the early 1700s, with a settlement called Acadia in Canada, near Nova ...

When word got out that the book "Acadie Then and Now: A People's History" is a Prix France-Acadie 2015 finalist, two of the three authors were in Destin, Fla., for a Bar Convention and could not ...

One hundred years ago little had been written about the Acadian deportation from the Maritimes Provinces of Canada, resulting in Acadians — or Cajuns as they’re better known in Louisiana — being ...

When the first boatload of Acadians came to Louisiana in February 1765, they were led by Joseph Beausoleil Broussard. Eight generations later, a Broussard descendant has helped compile a book that ...

An event commemorating the 250th anniversary of the arrival of the Acadians in Louisiana from Canada drew an overflow crowd to a room at the Old U.S. Mint in the French Quarter on Saturday. It’s a ...