Player Dave - Acadia
ELECTRONIC
2026-02-13
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#HappyAnniversary to Scheradee and your 2019 #Gmc #Acadia from Jim Haas at Hiley Acura!
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#gmc아카디아
지엠한국사업장이 GMC 브랜드의 대형 SUV인 아카디아를 출시했습니다. 국내에는 최상위 트림인 드날리 얼티밋이 판매됩니다. 3열 7인승 좌석 구성과 풀그레인 가죽 내장재 등 고급스러운 꾸밈새와 332마력 2.5L 가솔린 터보 엔진 및 AWD 구성 등을 갖춰 대형 SUV 시장을 겨냥한 것이 특징입니다.
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The Beach at Acadia by Ken
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A view of a beach at Acadia National Park on Maine. The water was cold! But the scenery was beautiful.
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13 December - Acadian Remembrance Day
Each year on the 13th of December, Acadians and those in the diaspora take time to remember those murdered in the Expulsion, the families lost or separated, and celebrate those who continue to thrive nearly 300 years on.
The Expulsion is remembered as a dark chapter in Canadian history, though it happened over a century before Canada as we know it was born. Despite this, the Expulsion is not widely known by many outside of what was known as Acadia or outside of regions where descendants have lain roots. It’s not taught in Social Studies classes- at least not when I was growing up. So I want to take the time today to talk about it. We have to start a very long time ago, just after Champlain’s arrival in what became Nova Scotia.
France in the mid-1600s was interested in establishing a colony in the New World, in an area where the land was fertile and trade opportunities were available. The land became known as Acadie, and it included what we know today as Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and northern Maine. Farmers, labourers, fishermen, any hardworking individual from the regions of Poitou and Brittany who wanted to settle down on the other side of the world was welcome to, and that’s what a good many of them did. As it happens, a lot of these new faces were really really good at building dykes- they’d been familiar with them farming in the low-lying fields in western France. Over generations they mastered the tides of the Bay of Fundy to keep their fields fresh. As well, they maintained very friendly relationships with the Mi’kmaq, and they looked to each other as neighbours, even marrying between cultures in many cases. This strong alliance, their generational friendship, came to be seen as a threat as soon as the 1700s to the colonial elite of New England, whose giant ships now moored in their harbours.
In 1713 the Treaty of Utrecht made it so that Acadie was now under British rule and so technically all “Inhabitants,” as the Acadians were known in these days, were now British subjects. For the sake of consistency, I’m going to keep referring to them as Acadians to avoid confusion. The Acadians were then made to swear an oath of allegiance to the British Crown, which was of course refused, and for a long while they did live as usual albeit with the shadow of military men from New England looming over them.
Acadians did not understand allegiance to a monarch. They had been living in a land for generations where they did not follow this system of governance. Being Catholic, the priest was the head of a community. They did not fight in wars. They were peaceful. The “Neutral French,” as they became known, did not want to choose sides. They wanted to continue as they always had. It wasn’t to be.
By the mid-1700s, violent battles between the Acadians/Mi’kmaq and the British were fought, usually due to the threat of their lands and homes being seized. In 1755, a man named Charles Lawrence, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, made the decision that he’d had enough of these people and, without consent from Britain, began crafting a way to forcefully eliminate all Acadians from the region. Meanwhile, on the isthmus between modern-day Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, a high-ranking New England army officer named John Winslow was busy laying siege to Fort Beausejour and Beaubassin. His orders were to then march his men to Grand Pré, a significant Acadian village, set up sentries and secure a base there, and, by the Fall, see to it that every Acadian was gone.
The 5th of September 1755 saw Winslow and his men gather all able-bodied men and boys above 10 (several hundred individuals) into the church that stood at Grand Pré, lock the doors behind them, and inform them that they were to be removed by force from their homes and sent to colonies overseas. From September to the end of October, the soldiers occupying Grand Pré caused unspeakable horror to the villagers despite orders not to. Acadian women were raped and their families had their property stolen. Soldiers had to be regularly disciplined, as it had been recorded by one of Winslow’s lieutenants that most would kill every single one if they had the chance.
And as the years went on, from 1755 until the 1760s, most of the Acadian population had been forced onto overcrowded, cramped vessels that had once been used for African slaves. Packed like sardines. Many families were separated from each other. Disease spread quickly and thousands died on their exodus. Some vessels were lost at sea. They were on their way to New England, the Carolinas, and Louisiana, though in some cases were diverted over to England, where they spent the next seven years in small, dirty prison cells. The Acadian population had taken a severe blow, tens of thousands had died over the course of the Expulsion.
Despite unimaginable death and atrocity, there was life. Hope. New babies, born in prison, born in exile a world away from their parents’ home, restored a faith in the revival and maintenance of their own culture. After too many long years away, some families “repatriated” in northern France were allowed to come home. They came back to Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, and established the vibrant, rich Acadian communities that are open to be visited today. Others, like some families in New Brunswick, spent the years in hiding, and braved unfathomable fear and hardship to survive and raise their very own brand new villages.
I’m thinking of my cousins who didn’t come home, who stayed in New England and Louisiana, who I know have made their very own identity out of the horrible hand their ancestors were dealt centuries ago. I’m also thinking of those who never got to see the end of the Expulsion. I wish they knew were still around, I wish they knew they’re not forgotten, and man, I wish they knew I got to do work at Fort Edward, one of Charles Lawrence’s headquarters, and some other places they were banned from going- septième Pépére Pierre, I just know Lawrence is rolling in his grave. N’oublions pas.
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NGL, I really wish I talked more about my Acadian heritage and Acadian history online. I love my culture and people and very much is a special interest for me. Acadians in general is a very niche topic that even my British Atlantic history teacher didn’t broach at all even after I mentioned it. And I live in an Acadian region. It’s a history and people that deserves more attention imo.
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Congratulations to Yasmin Williams, who has won the International Folk Music Awards’ Rising Tide Award, which “celebrates emerging artists who inspire others by embodying the values and ideals of the folk community through their work.” The composer/guitarist’s “inventive finger-style approach … has expanded the instrument’s expressive possibilities,” reads the citation. “Through her boundary-pushing artistry and principled activism, Yasmin Williams stands as one of contemporary music’s most visionary and courageous voices, fully embodying the values and ideals of the folk community." The IFMAs will be presented at the 38th Annual Folk Alliance International Conference in New Orleans on January 21. More here.
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#HappyAnniversary to Alexis and your 2022 #GMC #Acadia from Gavin Samples at Hiley Acura!
