Sentence examples for acadian from inspiring English sources

Acadian culture, fostered by a French-language school system, French-language radio and television stations, and local festivals, remains an important part of the life of the province.

Other ancestral strains include several hundred British loyalists, who settled on the island after the American Revolution, and about 30 Acadian families, recorded in the census of 1765, who were the progenitors of several thousand present-day French-speaking island residents.

Occupying the site of the French Fort Nashwaak (1692) and the Acadian settlement of St. Anne's Point (1731), it was laid out by loyalists (Tories) in 1785 and named for Frederick, son of King George III.

Settled in 1857 as an Acadian fishing community, it was known as Saint-Pierre-de-la-Pointe-aux-Esquimaux until the present name was adopted in 1930.

Their descendants continued to form a distinctive part of the population, and the late 20th and early 21st centuries saw a renewed interest in Acadian history and culture.

Younger volcanic arcs, some built on strips of crust that originated on the northwestern margin of Gondwana, then drifted northward and were accreted to the Appalachian margin between about 450 and 410 million years ago (the Acadian orogeny).

Many of the tens of thousands of acres of marshland created by the tremendously high tides among the highest in the world of the Bay of Fundy have been turned to agricultural use by dikes, which were begun in the mid-17th century by the early French settlers, the Acadians.

The French Canadian nation includes all Francophones and Acadians living throughout Canada and even Franco-Americans in the United States.

The area was first settled by exiled Acadians from Nova Scotia in 1763.

That event, known among Acadians as "the Great Upheaval," would serve as the theme of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem Evangeline.

(Acadians living in the Maritimes call their version of tourtière by its common name, pâté à viande).