DID YOU KNOW….
Facts on Acadians in Louisiana
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Did you know that the Acadians originated as
peasants coming from France to Canada in 1632?
Did you know that after living in Canada for more
than 100 years and a shift between rulers, the
Acadians were eventually exiled from French Acadia?
Did you know that in 1755, the Acadians were
literally evicted from their land because of their
refusal to take oath of allegiance to Protestant British
King?
Did you know that is was decided by Charles
Lawrence to send the Acadians to British colonies on
Atlantic Coast?
Did you know that the Great Expulsion of 1755, The
Deportation or Le Grand Dérangement was a massive
upheaval for Acadians in Nova Scotia?
DID YOU KNOW….
Did you know that when the first Acadians
arrived in April of 1764, Louisiana was owned by
Spain but still retained all of its French culture
 Did you know that the first arrivals consisted of
20 Acadians who had been in New York and their
relatives recently released from Fort Edwards,
Nova Scotia? (This group settled along the
Mississippi River around the boundary of St.
John and St. James parishes).
 Did you know that Acadians were known as
hard-working trappers & farmers who valued
land, family and their Catholic faith?
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you know that in 1764, the arrival of
first Acadian group in Louisiana occurred?
 Did you know that in July of 1767, 210
Acadians were settled at St. Gabriel?
 Did you know that the first groups were
given supplies from Spanish government
warehouses?
 Did you know that the Acadians settling in
the Louisiana regions raised livestock on
prairies?
DID YOU KNOW….
Did you know that Acadiana is a now a twenty
two parish area in Louisiana?
 Did you know that St. Martinville is known as
the “Birthplace of Acadiana?”
 Did you know that the word “Cajun” came from
the French pronunciation of the word, Acadianne,
meaning “people of Acadia?”
 Did you know that a large portion of present-day
Louisiana is home to descendants of Acadians?
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Calcasieu
Cameron
Jefferson Davis
Evangeline
Acadia
Vermilion
Avoyelles
St. Landry
Lafayette
Pointe Coupée
St. Martin
Iberia
St. Mary
W. Baton Rouge
Iberville
Assumption
Ascension
St. James
Lafourche
Terrebonne
St. John the Baptist
St. Charles