The traditional music of Atlantic Canada is heavily influenced by the Irish, Scottish and Acadian ethnic makeup of much of the region's communities.

Surnames of the original Acadian settlers ( which are documented ) have been augmented by French and non-French family names that have become part of Cajun communities.

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 ).

However, Labrador, Quebec, and even some Acadian Métis communities are not accepted by the Métis National Council and are represented nationally by the " Congress of Aboriginal Peoples.

They eventually established ( or re-established ) a host of small Acadian communities along the northern and eastern coasts of present-day New Brunswick.

In the first wave of the expulsion, most Acadian exiles were assigned to rural communities in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and South Carolina.

It is also often used as a street name in Acadian communities.

The roots and base of Chiac are Acadian French, a spoken French often tinged with nautical terms ( e. g. haler, embarquer ), reflecting the historic importance of the sea to the local economy, as well as older French words ( e. g., bailler, quérir, hucher, gosier ), many deemed archaic by the Académie Française, testimony to three centuries of relative isolation of Acadian communities from French influence.

There are sizable French-Canadian communities scattered throughout the other provinces of Canada, particularly in Ontario, which has about 1 million people with French ancestry ( 400 000 who has French as their mother tongue ), Manitoba, and New Brunswick, which is the only fully bilingual province and is 33 percent Acadian.

In Queen Anne's War, Church returned to Acadia, raiding Beaubassin and other Acadian communities on the Bay of Fundy.

There is a provincial advocacy organisation Fédération des Francophones de Terre-Neuve et du Labrador, representing both the Peninsular French and Acadian French communities.

There are also nearby Acadian French communities in the Codroy Valley and Stephenville.

The accents can be divided into three categories: the Western or Scottish Gaelic accent ( Inverness, Judique, Mabou, the Margarees ), the Industrial accent ( Sydney, Glace Bay ) and the French Acadian ( communities surrounding Cheticamp, L ' Ardoise and Isle Madame ).

This speech stems from the influence of Acadian settlers residing in French communities throughout Cape Breton, resulting in many loanwords.

In other areas this also is the result of Gaelic influences where the sound " th " does not exist in the language and in some communities there is a notable mixture of both the Gaelic and French Acadian accents, particularly in the Richmond County area.

Prior to British settlement, it is believed that Acadian families lived in what are now the neighbouring communities of Economy and Portapique ( or Portaupique ), places whose names were most likely derived from Acadian French language.

Focusing her writing largely on the Acadian / Cajun communities of Louisiana, Chopin established her literary reputation with the short story collections Bayou Folk ( 1894 ) and A Night in Acadie ( 1897 ).

Although both Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia have Acadian communities as well, both are much smaller and less proportionally significant.

Within 18 months of establishing Halifax, the British also took firm control of peninsula Nova Scotia by building fortifications in all the major Acadian communities: present-day Windsor ( Fort Edward ); Grand Pre ( Fort Vieux Logis ) and Chignecto ( Fort Lawrence ).

Traditionally, the shores of the estuarine portion of the Miramichi River valley were predominantly Acadian fishing communities, whereas Chatham was an Irish community and Newcastle and many towns upriver were Scottish communities.

The Acadian French did create a large French influence in the diet of those settled in Louisiana, but had little or no influence outside of Louisiana.

Acadian settlements had primarily agrarian economies, although there were many early examples of Acadian fishing settlements in southwestern Nova Scotia and in Île-Royale, as well as along the south and west coasts of Newfoundland, the Gaspé Peninsula, and the present-day Côte-Nord region of Quebec.

While Lower Louisiana had been settled by French colonists since the late 18th century, the Cajuns trace their roots to the influx of Acadian settlers after the Great Expulsion from their homeland during the French and Indian War ( 1754 to 1763 ).

That year Bishop Patrice Chiasson, an Acadian who had succeeded Bishop Barry in 1920 as bishop of Chatham, managed with the help of a few priests to keep the college operating.

His work was not entirely of a political nature: in a humanitarian streak he supported Acadian refugees who had been expelled from their Nova Scotia homelands, even though this support of Roman Catholics was unlikely to gain friends in Protestant Massachusetts.

The boys had learned apple farming and other Acadian families moved here to assist them with their apple business.

During the siege, the French officer Marin had taken British prisoners and remained with them in the bay at Cobequid, where an Acadian said that the French soldiers should have " left their British carcasses behind and brought their skins.

Father Le Loutre's War hand created the conditions for total war ; British civilians had not been spared and, as Governor Charles Lawrence saw it, Acadian civilians had provided intelligence, sanctuary, and logistical support while others had fought against the British.

By the 1960s, radio and television had begun to help disseminate French folk songs, especially after the 1967 foundation of the Centennial Collection of Canadian Folk Songs, including recordings of Quebec performers like Yves Albert and Jacques Labrecque, as well as Acadian Edith Butler.

The poem had a powerful effect in defining both Acadian history and identity in the nineteenth and twentieth century.

The poem had a powerful impact in both defining Acadian history and identity in the nineteenth and twentieth century.

In response, Felix Voorhies wrote the book Acadian Reminiscences: The True Story of Evangeline and other later works of fiction expanded upon the material of the poem, claiming the " real names " of the characters had been " Emmeline LaBiche " ( in Longfellow her full name is Evangeline Bellefontaine ) and " Louis Arceneaux " ( in the poem, Gabriel Lajeunesse ).

The Canadian market also had a Pontiac version of Chevette named Acadian.

His mother was from a prominent Acadian family on Prince Edward Island while his father's family had emigrated to Cape Breton from the Scottish Highlands in 1810.

The Poitevin-Saintongese language has had an influence in Quebec French, Acadian and Cajun.

came to support in recognition of the support that members of the Acadian community had given to his companies.

Newfoundland French and Acadian French speakers who had lived and worked their entire lives in relative francophone isolation now found themselves at the heart of an American, Canadian, British and Newfoundlander anglophone economic centre.

The expedition that year was led by Samuel de Champlain ( who had also had an important role in establishing the Acadian colony ), and resulted in the establishment of the colony that grew to become Quebec City.

Hatfield had made inroads in the Acadian community since the 1970 election, winning three francophone seats in by-elections.

On October 26, 1844 Charles Fenerty took a sample of his paper to Halifax's top newspaper, the Acadian Recorder, where he had written a letter on his newly invented paper saying: