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Sentence Examples Consequently, what illustrations exist of the Acadian landscape tend to be faraway and vague. Although the Mi'kmaq camped in the area in summer for hundreds of years, today the people of this area are predominantly of Acadian ancestry. Many of them would later find their way to Louisiana where they became known as Cajuns, a derivation of the word Acadian. Two World Acadian Congresses in the 1990s helped very much to foster Acadian pride. As if to atone, Winslow brought two Acadian families back to Marshfield, where the town temporarily fed and housed them in the school. I'm proud of my French heritage and I started to discover my Acadian roots later in life, I guess. The collision of North America with the Avalon microcontinent during the Devonian Period caused the Acadian orogeny. Cajun cooking is influenced by the cuisine of the French, Acadian, Spanish, German, Anglo-American, Afro-Caribbean, and Native American cultures. Louisiana attracted Acadians who wanted to rejoin their kin and Acadian culture. Despite British attempts to impose its language and culture, Acadian culture persisted. Or discover the meaning of our famous Acadian joie de vivre as you sing along to the dinner theater at the Village Historique Acadien! There will always be people who think the development of the Acadian community is not realistic, that it is unachievable. Kadlec's twin compositions focus overwhelmingly on the mid-eighteenth-century Acadian landscape itself, executed in a style reminiscent of a Dutch master. The continued life of Acadian culture, now largely based in New Brunswick but reaching as far as its diaspora travels, is a testament to the show's message. A group of citizens concerned about the erosion of Acadian culture in the Cheticamp area formed a non-profit co-op in 1992 to raise funds for a community-based radio station. Like other Acadian singers Arsenault met, she and her family also sang English songs, French songs of literary origin, and locally-composed songs. Cercle Moliere has also brought in three or four shows from Acadian theatre companies, including the very political Pour une fois which tells the history of Acadia. Is it a coincidence that Acadia wheat should make a comeback after 50 years in the heart of the Acadian population in the Maritimes? Let it be known that I do not intend to give up until the horrific tragedy of the Acadian deportation has been duly and officially recognized. Findings of this type confirm that the basic receptiveness of Francophone and Acadian communities cannot be taken for granted. Show More Sentences As a full-blooded Acadian, I know about this historic period, as all Acadians do. Our specialty is our Acadian cuisine with râpure, meat pie, Hominy corn, chicken fricot, to name a few. Traditional dishes like Chicken Fricot and Rapure are long-time favourites, but the meat pie is the classic Acadian dish. The British expelled all the young Acadian men from Nova Scotia and distributed them down the shores of the American seacoast. Everyone, young and old, experienced the pride and joy of the Acadian people. This congress reawakened the pride of the Acadian people in the French language. Each participant will be given a program and a name tag with the name of an Acadian on Winslow's list. Fragments of a wine bottle found on May 16th in the excavated cellar of an Acadian dwelling at Grand-Pré National Historic Site. The King Act also threatened French teaching in schools and so affronted Acadian nationalists. As a poet and singer-songwriter, he was one of the first Acadian artists to provide his people with music and lyrics they could call their own. Since 1975, she's been criss-crossing New Brunswick and its surroundings to gather Acadian legends, whose origins get lost in the night of time. When cleaned out, many valuable French Acadian relics were found at the bottom, supposed to have been put there at the time of the expulsion. It was then that the delegates adopted August 15, the feast of the Assumption, as the Acadian national holiday. A large number of tourists travel the trail every year to partake in Acadian culture and to enjoy the scenery. Music is in a somewhat better position because of the long tradition in the Acadian population of valuing musical expression and training. Over the course of his political career, Amand Landry's self-appointed mission was to give voice to the interests of the Acadian people. The Acadian flycatcher, for example, is a songbird that needs large tracks of forest which are increasingly scarce. He was a true patriot and always instilled in us the value of our Acadian heritage. A few Acadian colonists also cut wood, enough to make ends meet and sometimes even more. In the late 18th century, the Acadian Peninsula became a new home for Acadian, British, French, and Loyalist settlers. Show More Sentences Acted for the special committee of the board of directors of Fraser Papers Inc. in the spinout of its timber resources into Acadian Timber Fund. Mr. Gionet was a hard-working Acadian, a fisher, a farmer, a barber, a cook and a construction worker. That is why, in 1982, section 23 augured well for the institutional emancipation of the minority Francophone and Acadian communities. Kino productions are screened in Acadian communities and at the World Acadian Congress. The Evangeline district of Summerside has a reconstructed Acadian Village, a cultural centre, and a museum. This year, there will be two concerts in the big tent. The Acadian group Grou Tyme Gumbo from Halifax will perform traditional cajun music. Myron Syms and his partner Judy left Montréal to settle in the small Acadian village of Chéticamp. In other words, over the years, the tricolour and star has been the most powerful symbol of cultural identity for the Acadian people. The Atlantic bureau of Parks Canada, together with an Acadian consultative committee, chose Claude Picard to carry out this project. Winslow then summoned all Acadian men and boys over the age of 10 to come to the church on September 5th to hear a royal proclamation. Its garrison participated in forays and Acadian campaigns, and settlers tried to support the cause by producing food stuffs. Georgette LeBlanc: you could almost say that her presence at the Festival propelled her onto the Acadian literary stage. They did make use of some local talent, notably R. J. Leary, portraying Michael the fiddler and Rhea Rafuse, portraying an Acadian maiden. Acadian communities in this district, established in 1672, straddled the disputed boundary between the French and British empires. This could be synchronous with the emplacement of nearby Devonian plutons and the F1 and F2 folds, both produced by the Acadian orogeny. New institutions of higher learning and new newspapers are set up in various Acadian communities. Don't miss our lobster suppers, including an Acadian seafood chowder, Island mussels and garden salads with our special dressing. I believe that he did as much for Acadian culture as the greatest figures in the history of his people. And it was some people who claim to be of Acadian descent who fought to defeat the motion and protect the federal government. In our timber operations, we sponsored the launch of publicly traded Acadian Timber Income Fund. Show More Sentences As noted in the Acadian Platers case, some types of position will permit greater reliance on interviews than others. In April a young Acadian girl working at the Hôtel Dieu hospital dies of smallpox. Therefore, the Acadian settlers arrive in the Madawaska region towards the end of the 18th century. This year, the Veterans and culture of Québec-a province with approximately one million people of Acadian descent-will be commemorated. The signing of the Protocol marked the beginning of the active engagement of Francophone and Acadian communities in the 2010 Winter Games. Thus New Brunswick sociopolitics saw a new generation of men and women with new ideas, grappling more with contemporary Acadian realities. There could be no more fitting companion for the Acadian chicken stew entree inscribed on a blackboard in the dining room. The 23 participants enjoyed traditional Acadian cuisine and entertainment. That attitude is very pervasive here in the Acadian culture-there's a kind of common cultural attitude that produces something quite good, but negative too. Martin's visit Sunday will bring to a close two weeks of celebrations honouring Acadian culture that drew thousands from around the world to Atlantic Canada. France did not recognize the oath and continued to regard the Acadians as French subjects, and Acadian relations with the Mi'kmaqs remained friendly. Colonists of Spanish, German, and Italian origins, as well as Americans of English-Scotch-Irish stock, became thoroughly acculturated and today claim Acadian descent. Acadian farms, dependent on dikes and the development of marshland, were self-contained and achieved high levels of production of cereals and apples, and then of livestock. Acadian Skies and Mi'kmaq Lands is a starlight reserve in southwestern Nova Scotia. We will provide a perspective for studying the experience of Acadian, Quebecois and Francophone communities in bridging the identity particularism and the cultural diversity that stem from recent immigration. With the backdrop of the Appalachians, Baies des Chaleurs and the vibrant Acadian culture, northern New Brunswick has a unique outdoor experience to market. Mindful of the same nutritional needs as settlers from Acadia, it has many similarities with Acadian cuisine. We know that 418 Acadian men and boys were assembled in the church at Grand-Pré on the 5th of September 1755, under the orders of Lieutenant Colonel John Winslow. It is rooted in Québec's historical responsibility toward francophone and Acadian communities and is crucial to the unifying leadership role it intends to adopt in Canadian Francophonie, with all due respect to its partners. Contra dancing and country square dancing are popular throughout New England, usually backed by live Irish, Acadian, or other folk music. Show More Sentences In 1907, John Frederic Herbin, poet, historian, and jeweller, whose mother was Acadian, purchased the land believed to be the site of the church of Saint-Charles so that it might be protected. In dedicating her life to exploring the multiple facets of Acadia, Georgette Bourgeois has never ceased to be amazed by the courage, pride and hope of the Acadian people as she delves into their past. And while highly refined cabinetwork emerged from cosmopolitan New Orleans, another tradition was developing to the west on the Acadian prairies. Alleghenian reactivation of the Acadian fold belt, Meguma zone, southwest Nova Scotia. Noel, who is from the Acadian Peninsula, was charged with twelve counts of gross indecency, nine counts of indecent assault and one count of assault. Besides the Acadian problem, the conquerors of Port-Royal faced another major difficulty: the virtually incessant hostility of the Abenaki and Micmac Amerindians, who continually harassed the garrison. Acadian settlements in the three Maritime provinces were mostly located on river estuaries, which were modified through digues to hold back tidal water and provide pasture and hayfields. The Atlantic cod in fess is a reminder that this fish was both a means of subsistence and the source of prosperity for the Mallet family of Gaspé Peninsula and of Acadian New Brunswick. Marcel-François Richard, a man from Saint-Louis-de-Kent who also served there as vicar and priest, who, in the 19th century, proposed the adoption of the flag, with its tricolour and star, as a symbol of Acadian identity. Honourable senators, I have already mentioned the town where I reside, Saint-Louis-de-Kent, New Brunswick, is known as the cradle of the Acadian flag, the blue, white and red tricolour flag with a star on the blue. In April 1994 the list was made public and we learned that the bobwhite, the king rail and the Acadian flycatcher were added to Canada's list of endangered species. The inhabitants of the first Acadian trading posts certainly had to take up arms on occasion, and the colonists around Port-Royal were warned after 1627 to be ready to provide support to the soldiers, if necessary. Some may suggest that I am not an Acadian and that I therefore have no authority to take this initiative, but one undeniable fact remains: if it had not been for the deportation, I would probably be an Acadian today. Children are introduced to early musical instruments and to music as diverse as a Huron folk tale, an Acadian turlutte, a rondeau heard in the court of Louis XIV and a motet composed by a nun from the city of Québec. In addition, he founded and directed a musical theatre company, and has written or co-written works that remain an important part of the Acadian repertoire, including the musical comedy Louis Mailloux. Throughout the afternoon, the Acadian singer-songwriter, Jeanne Doucet Currie will wander around the grounds singing her own up-beat and high energy songs. Acadian culture, fostered by a French-language school system, French-language radio and television stations, and local festivals, remains an important part of the life of the province. These historic lands wind through the Annapolis Valley along the phenomenal Bay of Fundy and the Acadian Shore, passing lush rolling fields and wilderness back country to the picturesque seaport of Yarmouth. We revel in and share with visitors our joy of living and Acadian pride. The Mi'kmaq star honours the first inhabitants of the area, and the gold star is the symbol of Acadia, thus honouring the Acadian settlers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Show More Sentences Their descendants continued to form a distinctive part of the population, and the late 20th and early 21st centuries saw a renewed interest in Acadian history and culture. After 1784 the town became strongly French Acadian. In the eyes of the FCFA, which has unwaveringly and staunchly protected the rights of Francophone and Acadian communities since 1975, we have come a long way and should be proud of that. Acadia has indeed stood unbowed, and you see before you, Mr. President, the Acadian men and women who are the heirs of all those who worked so hard for almost four centuries to ensure that Acadia remained French. Since 418 Acadian men and boys were held prisoner in that church in September 1755, one can assume that the original structure was much larger than the present-day memorial church. Jonathan Fowler, Professor of Archaeology at Saint Mary's University, said he was particularly pleased with the discovery of an almost intact wine bottle in the Acadian layer of this cellar. It would no doubt have been preferable had the dialogue between the government and the Acadian community, which the SANB initiated in March 2006 with its top-drawer position paper titled Vivre en santé en français, continued. This grande dame of Acadian literature and French-language theatre will be honoured on Saturday evening at the Soirée des Éloizes 2010 in Moncton. The Caisses populaires acadiennes group is a proud partner of sporting events in Acadie, as demonstrated by its longstanding involvement in the Acadian Games. Extrusive activity is found in both continental and marine environments, whereas plutonic intrusions are usually linked with areas of uplift such as the Caledonian and Acadian belts of Europe and eastern North America. He jokingly refers to the Jeux de l'Acadie as a mini-Olympics for Acadian youth, with its colourful opening and closing ceremonies, the athletes' village and the delegations that come from all across the Maritimes. Antonine Maillet's monologue of a washerwoman that dramatizes four centuries of Acadian existence. The play has been performed by Ms. Léger across Canada and internationally over 1,400 times, in English and French. It arranged for the participation of BLOU, a very popular Acadian musical group from Nova Scotia, which put on two educational shows about Cajun music for students from the Lycée Anna de Noailles in Bucharest. Archaeological evidence demonstrates that Grand-Pré National Historic Site of Canada is indeed centered upon the ruins of the pre-Deportation Acadian community of Grand-Pré. This Acadian woman, with her rich vocabulary and ready tongue, observes human behaviour in a manner worthy of French writer and moralist Jean de La Bruyère. The data were obtained from the provincial and territorial departments of Education and double-checked with the Francophone and Acadian community associations. The size of the regular garrison at Louisbourg did not encourage the organization of a militia to provide assistance, and the social role which a militia might have played in the Acadian colony was of little importance. Many Acadian leaders have emerged as a result of their participation in this athletic event, giving rise to a broad network of activities and exchanges in French. Walk through the gardens, under the centuries-old French Willows and on well-manicured lawns, stop by the duck pond, visit the old well,  the old blacksmith shop and the Acadian kitchen garden. The mandate of this joint committee is to promote economic development, entrepreneurship and new employment opportunities in francophone and Acadian communities outside Quebec. Show More Sentences In many places, Acadian has been supplanted by English and by Standard French. The Burgess Shale contains fossils of very odd organisms that lived during the Acadian. Many Acadian refugees settled in south Louisiana in the region around Lafayette and the LaFourche Bayou country. Acadian Forest: a transition zone between the evergreen boreal forests of the North and the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence hardwood forests to the south-east. Cape Breton fiddling is a unique tradition of Gaelic and Acadian styles, known in fiddling circles worldwide. The Acadian poutine is a ball of grated and mashed potato, salted, sometimes filled with pork in the center, and boiled. For the 10th anniversary of the Port Symphonies, the horns of ships in the Old Port of Montréal will be ringing out loud and clear to salute the birth of the Acadian people. The lack of explicit objectives for maintaining the character of the Acadian forest has led to, or allowed, a reliance on clearcutting in conditions where it is having this undesirable consequence. Acadian flycatchers, Carolina wrens, blue-gray gnatcatchers, red-bellied woodpeckers, and yellow-breasted chats are at the northern limit of their breeding range. Grand-Pré soon outgrew Port-Royal, and by the mid-18th century was the largest of the many Acadian communities around the Bay of Fundy and the coastline of Nova Scotia. In North America, the collision between Avalonia and Laurentia is called the Acadian orogeny. The terrane is polydeformed by Acadian and Alleghenian tectonic pulses, presenting the full gamut of geologic mapping problems that must be addressed by GIS software. The ocean disappeared with the Acadian, Caledonian and Taconic orogenies, when these three continents joined to form one big landmass called Euramerica. Populous Acadian communities in the Atlantic provinces contributed their song variants to the huge corpus of folk music of French origin centred in the province of Quebec. Brasseaux's Acadian to Cajun focuses on nineteenth-century Cajuns. Port Royal was raided numerous times during the Acadian Civil War. Evidence for the Acadian displacement event is based on the geochemical study of detrital garnets in the Lower Old Red Sandstone on the Northern limb of the Strathmore Basin. French Acadian settlements began in the late 1600s first with settlements around the southern shore of the Minas Basin which became known as Les Mines. Examples from Classical Literature This and most of the unbroken English of this story stands for Acadian French. With an Acadian girl such a thing was impossible But girls do not need words. Some hired vessels in 1763, and sailed to Miquelon, and in 1767 and following years returned gradually to their old Acadian home. The Acadian stooped at once and with a quick splash launched his canoe. You could not have told whether the Acadian saw the black man or not. And here, at this turn of the road, we encounter two Acadian peasants. The Acadian caterpillar often turns into a Creole butterfly. The decrepit figure in its quaint Acadian garb was one to be remembered. Old Remi Corveau was a man of means among the Acadian peasants. It is sung in a distinctly Acadian French to the traditional sound of the fiddle and a rigadoon beat, until it is brought to a close with a satirical twist. It should have made him feel that England's triumph and increased dominion could not compensate to mankind nor atone to Heaven for the ashes of a single Acadian cottage. A youth, a mild-faced Acadian, was drawing water from the cistern, which was nothing more than a rusty buoy, with an opening on one side, sunk in the ground. Find more words! 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