There has been some question as to whether the word, “apology” should be used in connection with the royal proclamation issued by the British government concerning the expulsion of the Acadians from ...

In 1988, Congress passed the Civil Liberties Act, which apologized for America’s internment of about 120,000 U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry during World War II. When Lafayette attorney Warren A.

The Acadians sure were a scrappy lot. Sent by France in 1604 to create the colony of Acadia in an area known today as the Canadian Maritime Provinces (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward ...

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In 1606, 14 years before the Mayflower reached Plymouth, the sailing ship Jonas made port in Nova Scotia, delivering its first French colonists. Though French fishermen had plied these North Atlantic ...

A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians From Their American Homeland, by John Mack Faragher, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 592 pages, $28.95 "Where is the ...

Faragher relates, in all its complex, searingly sad details, the story of how the hapless French Acadians were run out of their Nova Scotia homes—a story known to most from Longfellow's Evangeline.

This year’s official poster for Festival des Acadians et Créoles commemorates the arrival of the Acadians to Louisiana. It shows settlers stepping ashore amid blue skies and cypress moss, with little ...

PORT HILL, Prince Edward island, Canada — When Claude Henry Arsenault returned to his hometown of Port Hill after a more than a 30-year absence, he didn't know what to do with himself. A friend, also ...