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 ...

Middle and High School students in St. Martinville researched the lives of the Acadian children who arrived in Louisiana after being forced from their farms in Nova Scotia by the English in 1755. Of ...

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A boat containing incense arrives in St. Martinville, La. during the Aug. 15, 2017 Fete-Dieu du Teche procession. The Lafayette Diocese will hold its annual 38-mile eucharistic boat procession Aug. 15 ...

The 16th Annual Acadian Memorial Heritage festival and Wooden Boat Congres was held on Saturday, March 18 in the heart of St. Martinville at Evangeline Oak Park. The free festival honored members of ...

Lafayette, LA (KPLC) - The following is a news release from the Lafayette Public Library System: On Thursday, Feb. 12 at 6:30 p.m. at the South Regional Library, authors Mary and Warren Perrin will ...

In January 1990, I prepared a petition and had it delivered to the British Crown. The petition sought a formal apology for their role 265 years ago in the 1755 deportation of 18,000 Acadians from Nova ...

Daigle’s research showed that 87% of his 331 students had French ancestry, 81% had Indigenous ancestry and 70% specifically ...