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Summer Series – Introduction to Acadian History

Image of the burning and plundering of Grimross, by Thomas Davies (currently held by the National Gallery of Canada)

“A view of the burning and plundering of Grimross” by Thomas Davies, National Gallery of Canada (Digital image from Wikimedia Commons)

Welcome to our summer series on Acadian history! We are very excited to be presenting this special six- week series, cross-posting on Unwritten Histories, Borealia, and  Acadiensis, and in collaboration with the Fredericton Regional Museum, the York Sunbury Historical Society, an Open Academy grant from the Royal Society, the UNB Departments of History and French, the New Brunswick College of Craft & Design, the Institut d’Études Acadiennes, and Historica Canada.

The blog series is the result of an exhibit, which will be opening this summer at the Fredericton Region Museum (FRM), and which myself and Dr. Chantal Richard of the UNB French Department have been coordinating – Dr. Richard as Curator, and myself as Research Director, along with many more wonderful folks. The exhibit originated in numerous conversations between Chantal and myself about how lacking Fredericton was in terms of public education and knowledge of its Acadian history. Everything you see around here is Loyalist history . Beyond a few street names, and the name of the French school here in Fredericton, there is very little acknowledgment of the complex history of Saint-Anne, the Acadian village that existed in this location until its destruction in 1759. In an effort to get some traction behind the notion of revamping the history of Acadians in Fredericton, we organized a lecture series. The series has been far-reaching, and has included so many excellent speakers, including Dr. Andrea Bear-Nicolas, Fidèle Thériault, Dr Greg Kennedy, and many more.

In honour of this series, we have invited several of the presenters to share their presentations here in blog-post form. Here’s what you can look forward to seeing over the series:

We hope that you will enjoy this series as much as we will! And don’t forget to stay tuned for my blog post, coming later today!

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3 Comments

  1. denise m deveau

    I’m looking forward to reading all the posts.

  2. jef

    pleasure meeting you! i also look forward to your future contributions. i also have an odd Acadian history; i stole my first wife from a charming LeBlanc boy in danvers massachusetts, i thatched the roof on the Acadian house in annapolis royal and i have seen Steven White’s house on bridge street in wayland where his family fetched up after the …incident of 1759. thank you for doing such a good job fanning the Acadian flames with thoughtful care. call or write anytime and i’ll share a few Port Royal secrets. best, jef

    • Andrea Eidinger

      Hi Jef. Thanks for your comment! We took out your phone number though for security reasons. Don’t want to have spammers calling you up. 🙂

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