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Festival Acadien: When it's time to "make some noise!"
Link to: Link to: Voyage Canada. (2009, December 9). "Festival Acadien - Caraquet, Nouveau-Brunswick, Canada" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cw-kxuzX38&t=2s
Link to: Mannapolis: "Mannapolis. (2022, January 18). "The Acadian Deportation: a century of independence ends in exile" (YouTube). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o-MMmRXDQI
Pointe-de-l'Église (N.-É.), December 21, 2022. "Matthias Duc, new director of the Center. acadien." https://www.usainteanne.ca/index.php?option=com_acym&ctrl=archive&task=view&id=823 (Note: To enable auto-translation from French to English, please copy paste the link to the article above into your Chrome browser and use the translate buttons provided.)  From the news release: "Université Sainte-Anne is pleased to announce that Matthias Duc, archivist, librarian and information science specialist, will assume the full-time role of director of the Center acadien as of January 1 , 2023. Mr. Duc holds two graduate degrees, a master's degree in communication sciences and a master's degree in information sciences, both from the University of Montreal."
News and Reflections: A "crime of transportation" committed against Acadians! -- January 2, 20231/2/2023
"It was on September 10, 1755, as we said, that the crime of transportation was committed against the honest and brave Acadians" -- Letter from the scene of the crime:    Approximate English Translation Courtesy, Joanne Doucette Acadians – "It was on September 10, 1755, as we said, that the crime of transportation was committed against the honest and brave Acadians. Some were transported to France, others to Massachusetts, many made their way to Louisiana to find France and freedom there. Those who came to Louisiana through unknown forests, on floating rafts, exposed to dangers of all kinds, pursued by the English, admirable heroes of an inglorious epic, colonized the current parishes of Saint-Jacques, Ascension, Lafayette and Saint-Landry. Who, unless you are English and proscriber [someone who condemns another to a legal punishment, including death], would dare to deny the Acadians courage, honor, patriotism and faith? We cannot better prove these virtues of our ancestors than by publishing the following letter, -- a letter consigned to the Archives and of an admirable simplicity. We find there the natural and true expression of all the feelings that honor humanity and make the executioners blush. As for the adventurers who allow themselves to settle without knowing, to despise without being worthy of esteem, to know the airs of masters when they are only valets, we ask them to read carefully. July 1756 (Archives) “We bless divine Providence, who in the midst of our afflictions has deigned to let us know of your dear news through the intervention of R.P. de la Brosse, Jesuit father, who lived some time with us at the Saint-Jean River, and who…. You know, sir, that after having received your last general absolution in the church, we left thirty deputies of Port-Royal for Chibouctou, and after several interrogations by the Governor and other authorities, on our position on the State and religion, and seeing that we were all resolved rather to die than to renounce our religion and France, our true fatherland, we were relegated to an island for nine weeks, giving us only two ounces of bread a day. and an ounce of meat, thereby starving us to into changing our feelings. But uselessly, thank God. Desperate to make us change, they had soldiers take us to Port-Royal, like criminals, set fire to our houses and made the inhabitants who had not fled into the woods embark. (900 people were saved from transportation this way.) The rest of the inhabitants embarked in six ships; on December 4 five of these ships sailed for the coasts of Boston and Carolina. The people of the Cape, the Boudrots, Charles Dugas and the Guilbauds, two families of Granges, who were in one of these ships revolted, and without any resistance from the English made themselves masters of the ship and happily arrived at the Saint John River, from where we have the honor to write to you. We found a favorable reception there in the person of Mr. de Boishébert….. We learned from other Acadians who fled from Carolina that the disease got into two ships, which killed many of our people; moreover, the LeBlancs, Gosme, Louis Prudent and a few others, are in Boston and the surrounding area……We are about to leave for Canada, because provisions are very scarce here….” Signed “Denis Saint-Seine, Charles Dugas, Joseph Guilbaud, Pierre Gourdeau, Denis Saint-Seine fils; on behalf of all the other inhabitants." Clippings and Translations:
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