It is with great pleasure that the AAMS announces this year's l'Association des Acadiens-Métis Souriquois (AAMS) 2023 Bursary in the Amount of $500.00 In Honor of Marie Rundquist, Director, AAMS Eleven years in the running, AAMS Bursary awards continue to contribute to post secondary school tuition costs for winning candidates. For applications and directions about how to apply, visit: https://acadiens-metis-souriquois.ca/aams-bursary.html

Link to: CBC News. (2023, January 7). "Nfld. & Labrador: This N.L. couple went for a walk with their dog — and returned with a centuries-old cannonball: Bernard Martin believes the cannonball could be from the late 1600s." CBC News. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/petty-harbour-cannonball-1.6704706

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
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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."

Link to: https://www.usainteanne.ca/index.php?option=com_acym&ctrl=archive&task=view&id=823

From the article: "Past President of the Acadian Memorial, Marty Guidry, related some sad news about our late, Acadian cousin Paul Lewis LeBlanc whose last home was in Ascension Parish, Louisiana:

"Unfortunately, today I learned that Paul LeBlanc passed away on August 24, 2022.  He had been in a full-care nursing home for over a year and died from complications of several health issues that he had during the past year."

Paul Lewis LeBlanc, as many may recall, was keenly interested in the use of DNA to verify genealogical lines and, ever since I've known him (which was from about 2006 on), Paul was always happy to share his knowledge and research."

Read the rest of the tribute to the life of Paul Lewis Leblanc (1946 - 2022) by clicking here: https://dna-genealogy-history.com/travel-by-ancestry/noted-acadian-genealogist-and-historian-paul-lewis-leblanc-of-baton-rouge-louisiana-passed-away-on-august-24-2022

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