The Roches perform the Band classic " Acadian Driftwood ".

Canadians Young and Mitchell were then invited back out to help The Band perform " Acadian Driftwood ," an ode to the Acadians of Canadian history.

" Acadian Driftwood " was featured in a 1984 CBC-TV special titled Murray McLauchlan's Floating Over Canada.

* Byron Berline-fiddle on " Acadian Driftwood "

# " Acadian Driftwood " – 6: 41

# " Acadian Driftwood " – 6: 40

* Byron Berline – fiddle on " Acadian Driftwood "

The island's residents can be grouped into five main cultures ; Scottish, Mi ' kmaq, Acadian, Irish, and English, with respective languages Gaelic ( Scottish and Irish ), Mi ' kmaq, French, and English.

While Maritimers are predominantly of west European heritage ( Scottish, Irish, English, and Acadian ), immigration to Industrial Cape Breton during the heyday of coal mining and steel manufacturing brought people from eastern Europe as well as from Newfoundland.

Duvivier and the twenty men retreated up the Northeast River ( Hillsborough River ), pursued by the New Englanders until the French troops received reinforcements from the Acadian militia and the Mi ' kmaq.

* Basques, Bretons, Normans ( French fishermen ), French Canadians, including descendants of Acadian refugees, and a number of descendants of Newfoundlanders.

Two descendants of the non-creole colonial koiné are still spoken in Canada ( mostly in Québec and among the Acadian people of the Eastern Maritime provinces ), the Prairies, Louisiana, Saint-Barthélemy ( leeward portion of the island ) and as isolates in other parts of the Americas.

During the French and Indian War ( part of the Seven Years ' War and known by that name in Canada and Europe ), the British sought to neutralize the Acadian military threat and to interrupt their vital supply lines to Louisbourg by deporting Acadians from Acadia.

* fricot: traditional Acadian stew prepared with chicken, potatoes, onions, carrots, dumplings ( lumps of dough ), and seasoned with savoury

To guard against Mi ' kmaq, Acadian and French attacks on the new Protestant settlements, British fortifications were erected in Halifax ( 1749 ), Dartmouth ( 1750 ), Bedford ( Fort Sackville ) ( 1751 ), Lunenburg ( 1753 ) and Lawrencetown ( 1754 ).

To guard against Mi ' kmaq, Acadian, and French attacks on the new Protestant settlements, British fortifications were erected in Halifax ( 1749 ), Dartmouth ( 1750 ), Bedford ( Fort Sackville ) ( 1749 ), Dartmouth ( 1750 ), Lunenburg ( 1753 ) and Lawrencetown ( 1754 ).

Until the establishment of Halifax ( 1749 ), the militia units in Nova Scotia and Acadia were Mi ' kmaq, Maliseet and Acadian.

In Nova Scotia and Acadia ( present-day New Brunswick and Maine ), the Mi ' kmaq, Acadian and Maliseet militias fought the New Englanders during Father Rale's War.

Louis Joseph Robichaud, PC, CC, QC ( October 21, 1925 – January 6, 2005 ), popularly known as " Little Louis " or " P ' tit-Louis " ( due both to his short stature and to his sharing a name with " Uncle Louis " St. Laurent ), was the first Acadian elected Premier of New Brunswick, serving from 1960 to 1970.

During the French and Indian War ( which included the Expulsion of the Acadians ), there were nine Native and Acadian ( Catholic ) raids against the protestant settlers on the Lunenburg Peninsula.

On-campus housing options include on-campus apartments ( East Campus Apartments, West Campus Apartments, Edward Gay and Nicholson Apartments ), Annie Boyd Hall, Evangeline Hall, the Engineering Residential College, the Business Residential College, Broussard, Acadian, Beauregard, Blake, Louise Garig, Herget, Highland, Jackson, Kirby Smith ( temporary ), LeJeune, McVoy, Miller, Taylor, East Laville, and West Laville.

Although the terms septante ( 70 ), octante ( 80 ) and nonante ( 90 ) are officially recognised by the Académie française, they remain rarely used by most French speakers, except in Belgium ( and its former African colonies ), Switzerland, parts of French-speaking Canada ( Acadian French ), Jèrriais, and some parts of France.

In the election the Liberal Party led by Acadian Joseph Daigle garnered 44. 36 % of the popular vote, just. 03 % less than the winning Progressive Conservatives and captured twenty-eight seats to the Conservative Party's thirty.

The popular Acadian rap group Radio Radio have also raised the profile of Chiac by rapping almost exclusively in that language.

However, contemporary writers such as Jacques Ferron ( Contes du pays incertain, 1962 ) in Quebec and Antonine Maillet in Acadian New Brunswick ( La Sagouine, 1974, and Pélagie-la-Charette, 1979 ), rely extensively on folk humour and popular culture.

It became not only a popular tourism destination but also evolved into a shrine to Acadian people.

Theme song for Acadian World Conference / Congres Mondial Acadien ( Acadie de nos coeur ).

In this presentation of the song, Levon, his wife Sandy Helm, and Murray McLauchlan depict the expulsion of Acadian citizens by British forces.

Most Acadian fishing activities were overshadowed by the comparatively enormous seasonal European fishing fleets based out of Newfoundland which took advantage of proximity to the Grand Banks.

Plans originally called for the Acadian to be based on the Chevrolet Corvair, which was produced at GM's Oshawa plant ; however, the concept was moved to the Chevy II platform to be introduced for 1962.

Evidence for the Acadian displacement event is based on the geochemical study of detrital garnets in the Lower Old Red Sandstone on the Northern limb of the Strathmore Basin.

His refusal, partly based on his Acadian ancestry, sparked a () publicized three-year legal battle involving the federal government ’ s Public Service Commission.

After the French ceded its colonies on Newfoundland and the Acadian mainland to the British by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, the French relocated the population of Plaisance, Newfoundland to Île Royale and the French garrison was established in the central eastern part at Ste.

In 1654, New England raiders attacked Acadian settlements on the Annapolis Basin, starting a period of uncertainty for Acadians throughout the English constitutional crises under Oliver Cromwell, and only being properly resolved under the Treaty of Breda in 1667 when France's claim to the region was reaffirmed.

Some people living in the Codroy Valley on the south-west tip of the island are also ancestrally Francophone, but represent Acadian settlers from the Maritime Provinces of Canada who arrived during the 19th century.

The morphology though is thoroughly Quebec French and not related to Acadian French: Absence of AF 1st person plural clitic je instead of QF on, no AF plural endings in-on on 1st and 3rd person verbs, no simple pasts in-i -, etc.

During King William's War, there was the naval Action of July 14, 1696 off Saint John, New Brunswick and Major Benjamin Church arrived by sea from Boston and raided various Acadian communities around the Bay ( See Raid on Chignecto ( 1696 )).

During Queen Anne's War, Church attacked the Acadian communities around the Bay again ( See Raid on Grand Pré ).

* Acadian Heritage Portal, in French – Video and historical facts on the Acadian Poutine râpée

During the early years, there were 8 Acadian and Mi ' kmaq raids on the new British settlement, such as the Raid on Dartmouth ( 1751 ).

Acadian Pierre Gautier, son of Joseph-Nicolas Gautier, led Mi ’ kmaq warriors from Louisbourg on three raids against Halifax in 1757.

At the western entrance of the park is the Acadian village of Chéticamp on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and a park information centre.

* Belle Cote, a small picturesque fishing village located at the mouth of the Margaree River where it flows into the Gulf of St Lawrence, marks the traditional boundary of the Scottish settlements to the south and the Acadian villages to the north that are located on the western side of Cape Breton Island.

During Queen Anne's War, in response to the French Raid on Deerfield, New Englander Major Benjamin Church raided the Acadian village of Castine, Maine before gathering at Mount Desert Island with other ships to continue to with the Raid on St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Raid on Grand Pre, the Raid on Piziquid, and the Raid on Chignecto.