New blog

Lucie LeBlanc Consentino has a blog: Acadian Ancestral Home.

Acadian Day in Nova Scotia

Proud to be an Acadian--on this year's celebrations in Nova Scotia.

Latest discoveries at Grand-Pre

Significant Acadian artifacts found: Archeologists believe they may point to site of deportation

Acadian children

Day of the Acadians remembers the children

Homestead of Daniel LeBlanc

Canadian artist Daniel LeBlanc has created a watercolor painting of the Homestead of Daniel LeBlanc, and is making limited edition prints available. Click on the link for more info.

Madawaska

Acadian Festival opens in Madawaska, Aroostook County, ME.

Acadian Village

Acadian Village in Lafayette, LA, recently celebrated its 30th anniversary.

PS: It's a hoax.

60 Minutes takedown of The Priory Of Sion.

Halifax's Grou Tyme cancelled

Axing Grou Tyme upsets Acadian communities.

The Chinese of the Eastern States

I've transcribed and posted to my webpage much documentation related to the 19th controversy over Carroll Wright's reference to French Canadians as the Chinese of the Eastern States.

C. Mel Surette

Fr. C. Melvin Surette of the Archdiocese of Boston was removed from ministry in 1995 because of charges of inappropriate conduct with young men. He was then given a job in the chancery, where his job was to find jobs for other priests who had been accused, including Fr. Ron Paquin--he was kind of the fox guarding the henhouse, you might say. This ended in 2000. Surette, living in the Peabody area, keeps busy these days writing for Acadian and French Canadian genealogy newsletters, and speaking at conferences on this topic. I met him at the Congres Mondial Acadien in 2004. The link above will take you to a Google search.

Only 3 more years!

CMA 2009.

Museum mounts binational exhibition on Seven Years' War

Museum mounts binational exhibition on Seven Years' War; Clash of Empires: The War That Made Canada 1754-1763, will start at Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, and will end up at the Smithsonian.