My Acadian Heritage

[ILG]

Originally Posted by *AQuietPlace*

My husband keeps telling me that I need to learn Spanish because that would be more useful, but I want to learn FRENCH, not Spanish, so there!

I'll probably work on Spanish after French.

After you speak a little French to him, he will probably see your point!! LOL!!

[*AQuietPlace*]

Originally Posted by ILG

After you speak a little French to him, he will probably see your point!! LOL!!

That's what I think! LOL.

[Hoovie]

Well, I did not understand a word.... but the girls are beautiful...

[ILG]

http://mediacentre.canada.travel/con...song_of_acadia

[ILG]

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...6/ai_n13786297

[ILG]

Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover

Well, I did not understand a word.... but the girls are beautiful...

Of course they are. LOL!

Did you listen to Evangeline? I love that song.

[timlan2057]

Originally Posted by ILG

When they moved the Acadians out of there many ended up in New Orleans and are now known as the Cajuns.

From Acadian Heritage on the other end of the Grand Derangement
,I must make a correction here.

The Acadians (Cajuns) did not end up in New Orleans.

They settled southwest Louisiana in the flat praries and the bayous.

New Orleans is known for the Creole culture; the Creoles came straight from France and were the aristocrats while the Cajuns were more rural and folksy.

A southwest Louisiana Cajun would be about as much like a fish out of water in New Orleans as he would be in Duluth, Minnesota.

Also, the cajun culture became a melting pot in southwest Louisiana - not only the Acadians but Spanish and German - along with Acadian French names like Landry there are cajuns named Hoffpauir (German) and Romero (Spanish) as well as Fontenot - who came straight from France. All of them spoke the cajun french dialect.

The Acadians were the first totally North American culture - they had been in modern Nova Scotia and PEI some 200 years before being driven out by the British.

In fact, the Acadians who went to France after being driven from their homeland did not fit in there either.

I agree it is a great heritage.

ILG, you need to come to Louisiana and see it from this end.

[Sarah]

Originally Posted by ILG

Evangeline is a beautiful song about the Acadian expulsion from that area. When they moved the Acadians out of there many ended up in New Orleans and are now known as the Cajuns. My people hid in Prince Edward Island and changed their name. My grandmother and many of my relatives still live in Prince Edward Island. It is really a very neat heritage.

We went to Prince Edward Island several years ago. We loved it!

Do you get to visit your relatives there?

Just think.......you could have become a Cajun.........lol

[ILG]

I used to sing this all the time as a kid. My mother's side was very Catholic. It was very frowned upon when I left the Catholic church. I had an aunt (passed away) who was a nun. My Mom had to go to convent school when she was young and the priests had a lot of say in what happened in the towns and families.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDhfhSCqbsQ

[ILG]

This also reminds me of when I was growing up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1BZ1_ssEuk