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.

More idiotic headlins

Scout.com: Fear and Loating in Cajun Country. I'm not sure what "loating" is -- but there's nothing in this article about "Cajun Country."

Say what????

Louisiana loses French flavor after hurricanes: Many fear Cajun, Creole inhabitants will never return
. What complete idiocy! More due to ignorance of the headline writer of the content of the article than to the article itself, which is an old AP story that I linked to a few weeks ago.

From Maine ...

UMFK board hears about Acadian Archives.

Boston Globe on Erath damage

In La., Acadian museum presses on - The Boston Globe.

Disaster Strikes Acadian Museum

Disaster Strikes Acadian Museum (photos)

The Acadian Museum of Erath and its annex on Lake Pigneur was flooded by waters from Hurricane Rita. On Sunday September 25, 2005, the US Marines provided the man power and use of their truck to enter the floodwaters covering town of Erath, the Erath Fire Deptartment , with the help of Erath Mayor George Dupuis, and Erath Chief of Police Steve Peltier (and some good Samaritans), museum directors Warren Perrin, Mary Perrin and Jean Ouellet led an effort that successfully "rescued" the priceless Queen's Royal Proclamation, whereby Queen Elizabeth for the first time in history acknowledged the wrongs done to the Acadian people during the Acadian Deportation in 1755. Along with removing the Proclamation, the rescue effort managed to also save a truck load of museum artifacts, including priceless photographs, clothing, materials and maps from the Acadian Museum of Erath. The artifacts and materials are safely stored in the Lafayette home of Warren and Mary Perrin where they are being dehumidified under the direction of the Louisiana State Archive's, including Director Dr. Florent Hardy and Doug Harrison and UL Art Museum's Joyce Penn. Photographs of the rescue are on the Acadian Museum website. Museum employees and directors are making futher arrangements to continue retriving and preserving the remaining materials which are threathened by exposure to the elements exposure to heat and dampness, both which promote the growth of mold and mildew.. Maintaince Suprivisor of the museum, Ron Miguez, is organizing the effort to remove the water, debris and sediment form the building. Anyone wishing to volunteer with the preservation efforts are asked to call Darylin Barrousse at 337-237-8500.

From Warren Perrin in Erath

Good to hear from you. DL was lucky not to have water in his house; it came within 2 inches. We had major damage in the Acadian Museum--loss about 2000 books and files etc. The French Ambassador to the US came for a visit on Sat. We are seeking donations. There were stories in the Morning Advocate (Sept. 29th "Erath, Delcanbre..") and Sunday's Advertiser (Recusing pieces of Acadian's past) about the US Marines helping us save the most impt. materials. Visit our web site and you will be able to find out more info. to send to your friends and readers. It should be on the site in a day or so.

Warren A. Perrin

Some Rita pictures from SW Louisiana

Josh LeBlanc has pictures of the flooding in Vermilion Parish.

"In Vermilion Parish, they didn't wait for the cavalry"

Cajuns roll up sleeves, hustle to save their lifeblood.

So, as Hurricane Rita turned homes into swamps, roads into waterways and fences into memories, the cattlemen and rice growers, oil workers and alligator farmers of Vermilion Parish didn't need government to tell them what to do: They launched rescue boats from front yards and high-water trucks to pull their neighbors to safety.

And as the tidal surge receded, they advanced, using airboats, trucks and horses to round up thousands of stranded, loose cows and bulls, fighting to keep the livestock – their livelihood – from plunging off the high road into submerged sidetracks.