My Acadian Heritage

[ILG]

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.

Thanks for the correction, Tim. Since this is my heritage and it's kind of a mish-mash, it is more from memory and what I have been told than research.

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.

Interesting. I know very little about the Cajuns. I just know that the expelled Acadians that went south became Cajuns. And, when pronounced the names sounds similar.

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.

It's funny but while you grow up, you don't really appreciate your heritage too much. I have only become interested in recent years and then, you ask a question here and there and what you are told is, like I said, a mish-mash of belief and tidbits of knowledge from here and there. I found a geneaology website that I sent to my family. It is pretty cool.

http://www.genealogytoday.com/ca/acadian.html

I think I would feel like a fish out of water in Louisiana!

[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

[timlan2057]

And here's some music from this end of the line ... Doug Kershaw. (The roots of his last name are actually English.)

Amazing how things evolve - but after 400 years or so, the culture is alive and well and has a place in the 21st century.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AQvUPN1jAk

[ILG]

Originally Posted by Sarah

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

Yes, quite a number of times. I am going this summer.

[*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.

[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.

[ILG]

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

[ILG]

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

[Hoovie]

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