Remembering Acadie

This site provides a journey through the memory of Acadians, the French-speakers of Atlantic Canada. In 2004, they celebrated the 400th anniversary of the first effort to create a French settlement in North America, in what was to become their part of the world. A year later, in 2005, they marked the 250th anniversary of their deportation, what they call their Grand dérangement (or Great Upheaval), at the hands of the British. This site provides both images and sounds connected with these two anniversaries, including reference to how they were marked on earlier occasions. Along the way, attention is paid not only to how Acadians marked these anniversaries, but also English-speakers who ended up inhabiting the sites of the earliest Acadian settlements and First Nations People, who befriended both the French settlers in the early seventeenth century and Acadians at the time of the deportation.