The ORIGINS of Louisiana's Acadians
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ส.ค. 2024
- The Acadians came to a beautiful land in Canada that we call today Nova Scotia. They call their land Acadia.
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Thank you. This was informative! Some of my ancestors are from Acadia. I am researching now on ancestry.
akkadia definitely has a link 222 this land settlers named Alexandria after Egypt's...history repeats itself in thee DNA of people who travel + have this ancient ancestry...
Although French settlers to Acadia arrived in 1604 the colony established that year was a failure. They moved across the Bay of Fundy in 1605 and established their colony at Port Royal (Habitation site). It should be noted the settlement known as Port Royal in the 1630s was not at the same location of the earlier settlement. The original Port was located across the Annapolis Basin, several miles to the west. Although Nova Scotia/Acadia was handed back to the French in 1632 they did not immediately occupy the site of the second Port Royal. Charles de Menou d'Aulnay de Charnisay established the French at the old Scot's Charles Fort settlement in 1635, renaming it Port Royal. The reason why many of the families were known to each other is because they were tenants on d'Aulnay's seigneurial lands in France. He resettled them as tenants on his seigneurial lands in Acadia.
Carl Brasseaux's characterization of the French colonists as refugees from the "religious civil war" is simply not the case. See previous comment about d'Aulnay settling people on his lands. Also, why would Catholics be fleeing France. The Catholics were the victors over the French Protestants known as the Huguenots.
It is uncertain when the French settlers started to refer to themselves as Acadian. Existing records from the period seldom use the name Acadian. The more common is habitant or French Neutrals. It may not have been until after the Deportations that the term Acadian came into wide and universal use.
The idea that the "Acadians were the first group of European settlers in the New World to use a name for themselves that no longer had anything to do with the old world" is questionable. The French colony in Quebec developed simultaneously to Acadia and the people there began to refer to themselves as Canadians. It would be interesting to explore this same idea for the much older Spanish and Portuguese colonies to see if the second, third, etc., generations of European settlers adopted names to distinguish themselves differently from the European born settlers.
If the term homoamericanus is applied to any group of people it would have to be the Indigenous people of the Americas given their existence in the Americas for many thousands of years prior to the arrival of Europeans.
Although the agricultural lands of Acadia contain rich soils, they are not the best class of soil in North America. Under the Canada Land Inventory system there are no Class 1 soils in Atlantic Canada. There are small areas of Class 2 soils in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island.
Although the dykelands may have helped define colonial Acadian culture the idea they used an "original way" of creating their marshland fields using dykes was not the case. There was nothing 'original' in using dykes. Dyke construction was a technique dating back to at least the Romans. Also, throughout the British North American colonies dykes were constructed. In the case of the British colonies dyked lands were only a small portion of the overall agricultural lands.
They brought the dyke system from Holland where they were living before Canada. They reconverted back to Catholicism when they moved to Canada. They were tired of endless religious wars and the French in Canada spoke the same language. The Cajuns are a different race of people because they intermarried with the local first people who had converted to Catholicism...❤
@@user-tt1qf5fg8b Well, you are way off on the information about the Acadians.
Dykes were in use across Europe and it is a technology that reaches back at least to the Romans. Dutch engineers were hired to assist the French at times with dyking technology but the French who became the Acadians did not live in Holland, did not learn dyking there, and did not reconvert to Catholicism.
During the very early period of settlement in Acadia there were a few Huguenots mixed among the Catholics. The main influx of French settlers which took place in the 1630s and after were Catholic. Many of the settlers came as tenant farmers from their Seigneurs' lands in France to their Seigneurs' lands in Acadia. These French settlers were not fleeing religious wars in France. Catholics in France were the persecutors not the persecuted.
The Edict of Nantes (1598) brought the Catholic - Huguenot wars largely to an end. The Edict held until 1685. This did not mean a total peace but it vastly limited and isolated the disturbances.
Merci Mesdames et Messieurs de garder cet héritage qui vous vient de vos aïeux.
Vos âmes sont belles.
Vous faites partie de la belle histoire de France et cela pour toujours.
En France métropolitaine, il y a différentes régions avec leurs particularités qui leurs sont propres et aussi leur patois qui est toujours parlé ... mais de moins en moins !
Le cajun et autres patois français parlés au Canada et aux États-Unis sont à préserver car ils sont originaires de la vieille France ... celle qui tend à disparaître de plus en plus depuis plus de cinquante ans.
La France n'est plus digne de vous !
Un grand MERCI
Puisse le Bon Dieu vous protéger !
Deo Gratias
Yes yes belles is right say it again! SO ❤❤❤
Most excellent video !!
Aged 75, with important DNA original roots in the matter, I have done a deep, deep dive into 'real' Acadian history and generations down through to the British Conquest of Canada.
Could not help but note after much study that an 'Acadian Creation Myth' with roots in Louisianna developed by 1880 and delivered to a largely un-educated society that has since grasped it with religious fervor.
The very last hotbed of the 'Acadian Resistance' was in Baie de Chaleur (where my roots ended up) as much as 3 yrs after the French surrender of Montreal. Most had been smugglers to the American colonies pre-war, privaters during the F&I wars and guerlla leaders in the last struggle before surrending to occasional piracy after surrender. All were finally rounded up by the British in an age when being a pick-pocket would get you hung in London. They were transported safely to Louisiana and in no time at all, prosperered as farmers and slavers.
Meanwhile 'Evangelines' famous advisor(a direct relative) was force deported to New England where he was readly adopted by local Boston society 'for the duration' of the war and when that came to an end a subscription was raised for him and his familys settlement back in Canada.
The Acadians of Port Royal were always treated gently by the 'Occuping British' and had no problems. The problems came out of Louisburg and the 'Fanatical' priest in charge there. Few know anything about this history because they have long been romanced by myth.
A good Catholic Acadians confession at the end of a study of life.
Wasn’t a miq-Mac name It came from Verazanno
Sorry but the name “Acadia” does 𝐧𝐨𝐭 come from the Mi’kmaq people’s name for the region, “Quoddy.” The name Acadia, first appeared in 1524, when the Italian explorer Giovanni Verrazano, sailing for France, visited the Atlantic coast of North America. The French never wanted to admit that an Italian came up with the name of their colony.
Facts 🇨🇦
Yeah, I’d rather specify Roman Catholic Italian, Spanish and Portuguese had the “new world” as explored, plotted and exploited as possible. In many cases centuries before Dutch, English and German began exploring and settling in the “new world” as Protestants.
France may have played some in between role, as they appear to have been made to hold onto Catholicism, uncertain about settlers. The movie “Black Robe” uses heaps of spin to regard the Roman Catholic experience with natives in Canada.
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Dude those people was kicked out of that land n given to whites also those original inhabitants was black French Europeans that was descendants from the inquisition of 1492 . It’s all documented
I don’t want to come off as being negative, but I have to bring up the facts here. The facts may seem negative here. Well truth is, people gotta stop this Cajun stuff about Louisiana. It’s a big falsehood. I’ll explain why.
The Acadians don’t exist as an isolated group in Louisiana anymore. They intermarried with the French and Québécois that were in Louisiana before the Acadians arrived known as “French Creoles”, also with whites from colonial Mobile (today, in Alabama) known as French Creoles that fled Mobile for Louisiana (modern boundaries) due to takeover of that area by the British, also with colonial white Caribbeans from St. Domingue (French colonial Haiti), Martinique and Guadeloupe also known as French Creoles in those areas, also with recent French immigrants of the 19th and early 20th century from France as well as somewhat with colonial Spaniards from the Canary Islands of Spain and southern Spain whose descendants in Louisiana are Spanish Creoles, also with colonial Louisiana Germans known as German Creoles, and some have admixture from British/Irish/Scots-Irish “Americans” that came after the Louisiana purchase and even a handful have some Italian mixture. In other words, those that identify as “Cajuns” in Louisiana are white Louisianians of mixed French and other European background like other white Louisianians, it’s just most of that background is from French speaking white populations (Acadians/Acadian Creoles, Louisiana French Creoles, Mobile French Creoles, also with more recent immigrants from France, also with white French Caribbean people who are Caribbean French Creoles).
I can write down more non-Acadian surnames found among today’s “Cajuns” than you and your two parents have fingers and toes. Yes, that many. Cajun is a corruption of Acadian. The “Cajuns” in Louisiana are not the same as the Acadian settlers that arrived in 18th century Louisiana and thus are not true Cajuns. This deception of the modern “Cajun” people needs to stop.
Mind if I ask you the question about what would make the African American man become mixed in with Creole or have Creole blood if we're talking generations that were around before the early 1900's?
@@cchrizzy219 No such thing as Creole blood. Creole is not a race or particular ancestry. Creole in Louisiana means: “born in Louisiana of old world ancestry (any ancestry NOT Native American, because Native Americans are New World peoples). This is usually also associated with Louisianians of colonial Louisiana ancestry (of any race or ancestry). So you see, there is no such thing as Creole blood. To be Louisiana creole is to be a native-born to Louisiana of any race or ancestry, usually a colonial descendant. So there are creoles that are whites, creoles that are blacks and creoles that are mixed race. For instance, I’m a white Louisiana Creole. Creole has nothing to do with “African-American”. It’s race neutral. Understand?
@trevor2102 Tonerre mes chiens, fais pas ça, cher! You have no idea what creole means in Louisiana. Creole is not a particular race or ancestry. For one, Creole means to be a local person born to the land (in this case Louisiana). For two, it means to be of old world ancestry (any ancestry that is not Native American, which is new world) born in the new world. For three, it’s usually associated with Louisiana colonial descendants that are born in Louisiana. For four, there are white Creoles, black Creoles and mixed race Creoles. For five, the race you’re mistaking as this made up “Creole race” you mention is called Creoles of Color. Why of Color? Because there are Creoles not of color (Creole whites). For six, white Creoles are categorized by their predominant ancestry (whites of predominantly French descent are French Creoles, whites of predominantly Spanish descent are Spanish Creoles, whites of predominantly Acadian descent are Acadian Creoles (also known as Cajuns today) and whites of predominantly German descent are known as German Creoles). Many whites are even a mixture of many of these and can just be seen as white Creoles and don’t have to specify ancestry. You wouldn’t know all of this because you are ignorant to what creole means in Louisiana. There are even Asian Creoles… Filipino descended Louisianians that arrived to Louisiana on Spanish galleon ships in the 1700’s that today reside in lower Jefferson Parish, Lafourche and Terrebonne and lower St. Bernard parish.
And what do you think Cajuns were called before the term Cajun was invented? CREOLES! Acadian Creoles to be exact. And in fact, Cajuns today are a mixture of Acadian Creole (Louisiana born Acadians) and French Creole ancestry (the French descendants that were already in Louisiana before the arrival of the Acadians), and many even have German or Spanish admixture.
So rather than being an arrogant person ignorant about what creole means in Louisiana, maybe try being humble and have a conversation because you might just learn something you don’t know from someone with a whole lot of knowledge on the subject.
I grew up in south Louisiana. My family was traced back to Acadie and Normandy
@@timmorvant1998 What are the surnames of your four grandparents? I can tell you which migration they come from and if any were indeed Acadian. Your surname Morvant however, is not an Acadian surname. It is a name that was found among the Louisiana “French Creoles” (this group was/is the original white Louisianians that descended from the earliest settlers of Louisiana and their ancestry was/is a mixture of ancestry from France and Québec). The surname Morvant arrived in Louisiana in the early 1700’s (somewhere around the beginning of the 1720’s) before the Acadians arrived, with the progenitor of that surname in Louisiana being your ancestor named Jean François Morvant (born 1697) from Québec whose father François Morvan Labonte (born 1671) arrived to Québec from Brittany in France. The Morvant surname started off in Louisiana in St. Charles Parish (Bernard François Morvant listed as being born 1724 in Destrehan, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana). The Morvant’s spread across Louisiana from that point.
Probably not true lol.
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