The Acadian Families of Yesterday and Today
Setting
From the middle of the 17th century, many families came from France and settled in Acadie, including the Arseneaus, Benoits, Cyrs, Oudys and Richards. The Deportation, however, dispersed these Acadian families all along the Atlantic seaboard, which explains why Acadian descendants can be found in Québec, France, and Louisiana.
Nowadays, Acadie is in the provinces of Atlantic Canada: Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador. It is there that many deportees and their descendants resettled, rejoining some families that had escaped the Deportation. Today, Francophones from elsewhere in Canada, Europe, Africa and Asia come to settle in this new Acadie.
In this context, let's try to define what an Acadian is.
Start-up question
What is an Acadian?
Guidelines
Keywords
Here are a few keywords which you will learn during this activity:
Essential and optional resources
Essential resources
Optional resources