#acadian

[lesorciercanadien]

Book of Seasons and Festivities

I wanted to share some images of my work so far in a book of holidays, seasonal religious and cultural celebrations for my own personal path. :)

[garou-art]

⭐🇫🇷 make some noise!!! tintamarre!!!!

entirely inspired by brazillian miku and the multitudes of cultural miku fanart. i present to you, acadian miku!

non-confetti version under the cut:

a semi-historical acadian outfit designed with acadian flag colours and embellishments;

[whereifindsanity]

1966 Pontiac Acadian Canso Sport Deluxe 2 Door Hardtop Eh.

[rramblinrroots]

[cogumellow]

the cabot trail // cape breton, canada // 2008 // ©

[twistingtreeancestry]

Acadian Day (LA)

While this day is to celebrate the resilience, contribution, and culture of Acadians, it's also Native American Heritage Day, so I'd also like to celebrate and thank the Wabanaki Confederacy, specifically the Mi'kmaq, Penobscot, and Wolastoqey Nations.

Without the Mi'kmaq Nation accepting the French colonizers onto their land and extending a hand of peace and teaching, the French would not have easily survived, if at all.

Thanks to the bravery and resistance of the Penobscot and Wolastoqey Nations, some of the Acadians were able to evade capture, deportation, and death. If not for them, there would have been nothing for the returning Acadians to come home to.

Thanks to all of them, the Acadians were able to settle deep roots that would resound through time.

Wela'lin, Mi'kmaq Nation.

Woliwoni, Penobscot Nation.

Woliwon, Wolastoqey Nation.

We owe more than we could ever repay to you.

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In honor of my ancestors who came to Nova Scotia from France and those who left Nova Scotia to France or Louisiana.

|| Paternal Grandfather's Father's Line

Charles Olivier Miquel Guillot (1746 Nova Scotia, CA - 1845 Louisiana, USA) and his wife Madeline Josephe [Boudreaux/Boudrot] Guillot (1744 Nova Scotia, CA - N/A).

Charles' father, Jean Baptiste Guillot (1720 Nova Scotia, CA - 1759 Atlantic Ocean).

Jean's mother, Marguerite [Doiron] Guillot (1669 Nova Scotia, CA - 1759 Nova Scotia, CA).

Marguerite's parents, Jean Doiron (1677 Nova Scotia, CA - 1735 Nova Scotia, CA) and Marie Anne [Trahan] Doiron (1671 Nova Scotia, CA - 1710 Nova Scotia, CA).

Mary Anne's parents, Guillaume Trahan (1611 France - 1682 Nova Scotia, CA) and Madeleine [Brun] Trahan (1645 France - 1700 Nova Scotia, CA).

Madeleine's parents, Vincent Brun (1611 France - 1693 Nova Scotia, CA) and Marie Renee [Breau] Brun (1616 France - 1686 Nova Scotia, CA).

|| Paternal Grandmother's Mother's Line

Silvain Sonnier, Sr. (1736 Nova Scotia, CA - 1801 Louisiana, USA) and his wife Marie Magdeleine [Bourg] Sonnier (1744 Nova Scotia, CA - 1814 Louisiana, USA).

Jean Baptiste Granger (c1741 Nova Scotia - 1842 Louisiana, USA) and his wife Susanne [Cormier] Granger (c1763 Nova Scotia, CA - 1800 Louisiana, USA).

Alexandre Aucoin (1725 Nova Scotia, CA - 1780 France) and his wife Isabelle [Duhon] Aucoin (c1750 Nova Scotia - 1817 Louisiana, USA).

[kattysouza]

Hey you! Do you live anywhere near Portland, Maine? Then you should go to this show on Feb. 9th about Acadian poetry performed by local musicians. A little lady you may know did the poster and album cover

[just-a-queer-fanboy]

Acadian miku. I'm gonna be honest I haven't been to Maine since I was 3 I do not remember anything about the culture. Genuinely considering going to Maine maritime academy just so I can be closer to where my dad grew up and actually learn something about my roots other than reading acadian history wikipedia and learning about nothing but how the British suck ass

Anyway fun fact my families ancestors only avoided the mass deportation by fucking off into the woods until the brits left. Also I found my pèpé's obituary the other day and it's very surreal to see the face of someone who died when you were in kindergarten

Oh and my mèmé, going off of old wives tales, kept telling my mom I'd be a boy since she was carrying high (that's an understatement I was all up in her ribs i was a menace as a fetusbaby), and my parents kept telling her "No, we got the tests done, the baby is female." But she was adamant that no, she was carrying me high. I was gonna be a boy. And like half a decade after she died, I (socially) transitioned and if heaven is real she's probably laughing her ass off about it.

Also my pèpé didn't know about segregation until he went to Florida despite being born in like 1930 or something

This started off as the "draw miku as part of your culture" meme but it devolved into me talking about my French grandparents who I have no memory of but many weird stories

[iwannabeaboat]

<<L'Acadie n'est plus>> ("Acadie is no more")

Words made famous (or as famous as any Acadian words get) by interdisciplinary artist and former lieutenant governor of New Brunswick, Herménégilde Chiasson, as those opening Bleu from his seminal 1974 poetry collection Mourir à Scoudouc. In that year the young Chiasson was primarily a poet, and an emerging voice in a loose literary movement we now call the Second Acadian Renaissance: comprised mostly of poets and playwrights from the counties of Gloucester and Kent in New Brunswick who had been educated at the Université de Moncton that coalesced in the mid-1970s and lasted roughly through the mid-1980s.

When Chiasson set those words to page he was elegizing the Old Acadie of his youth that had been (and continues to be) eroded by Anglo-Canadian hegemony. Today those words find a new resonance. Last night, Antonine Maillet passed away in her sleep at the age of 95.

If ever there were a human embodiment of Acadie- of the defiant Acadian spirit- to match Beausoleil himself, it was Antonine Maillet.

Acadian consciousness and cultural identity following the deportations began to coalesce in the 1850s. A large part of this identity formed around an epic poem written by a man who was neither himself Acadian nor a man with any particular depth of knowledge on our history and culture. The poem, as we all know, was Longfellow's classic Evangeline: a Tale of Acadie, and its success in all European-settled corners of this continent had the knock-on effect of inspiring a wave of actual Acadian expression and economic growth that would become known as the First Acadian Renaissance, typified literarily by history and journalism of the Five Men of Letters.

The first renaissance was significant of course, but this significance was primarily limited to more practical concerns and those great works were of a mostly educational nature. Acadie remained silent, rumbling. Acadian poets like Ronald Després and Raymond Guy LeBlanc were published on occasion throughout the 1950s and 60s but Acadian literature was far from a going concern even among Acadians ourselves. Everything changed in 1971 with the publishing of La Sagouine.

Maillet's one-woman play singlehandedly created or codified almost every trope of Acadian literature going forward: the personification of Acadie, the focus on intimate familial stories and pastoral settings, the defiant use of dialect as opposed to "proper" French or English. The previous definitive Acadian work was a melodramatic epic spanning a continent and an ocean waxing of the great lost and regained connection of two young lovers written in English by a man who wasn't even one of us. La Sagouine is a series of intimate vignettes featuring only a single character rambling in Chiac about her mundane life as a cleaning lady. And it's fucking brilliant in its original Chiac or in the English translation by Wayne Grady.

Though Raymond Guy LeBlanc was certainly important to the beginning of the Acadian literary renaissance, Maillet was undoubtably the spark that lit the powder keg. Put simply: there is not only Acadian literature before and after, there is French North American literature before and after Antonine Maillet.

It's common for me to form deep emotional connections with art- music and books especially- but it's seldom that a work truly changes my life. That short list of life changing works includes Maillet's Pélagie-la-Charrette, which I first read in 2022. In many ways a response to Evangeline, Pélagie tells of the return to Old Acadie rather than departure. It juxtaposes the bloodlines commonly understood to define our ethnicity against a much tighter bond of misfits- a found family. The novel is about my family in a very literal way as it deals with New Brunswick Cormiers (Maillet herself was a distant cousin of mine, as is every Cormier on this continent if you go back far enough), but more importantly it resonates with my experience of family in that so-queer way. Maillet of course did not come out until 2022, but the themes in her stories speak for themselves.

Pélagie and the later Bouctouche writer, Gérald Leblanc's Moncton Mantra inspired a journey of ethnic pride and self-discovery informed by those bits of culture my family kept with us in our folk Catholicism and free from "Grandma was an Indian!" family myth. To me, being Acadian means relationality, resistance, solidarity with the oppressed, and the reclamation of our cultural heritage. Of course, as a diasporoid from Midcoast Maine it's only natural my vision would be so romantic; after all my own Cormier grandparents were deeply traumatized and by many accounts odious human beings. And yet I still wear the name that only literally means "one who lives among sorb trees" as a badge of honor. I am damn proud to be what I am: a queer Acadian writer. And I am damn thankful to stand on the shoulders of the giant Antonine Maillet was and will doubtlessly continue to be.

Repose en paix, la Sagouine. Acadie may have lost her voice but she will always find it once more as she did with your emergence.

[hellopuns]

*Throws Alma Leblanc and her squirrel Tintamarre at you*

*J’vous lance Alma Leblanc pis son écureuil Tintamarre*

[lesorciercanadien]

Folk Ways for an Acadian or French Canadian folk practitioner

I want to start an ongoing list of Acadian and French Canadian religious and popular folk ways that I've been learning about for the last two years. My references will be at the end for further reading!

Blessing a candle on Candlemas (Feb. 2) with holy water will allow you to have a light whenever there is sickness and storms hitting your home. Traditionally on Candlemas, the light is lit and guided through every room in the house to bless all its corners for the year. It was even paraded in the farmer's fields. (Dupont)

The 25th April, on St. Mark's Day, is the ideal day to bless your fields or garden before putting in the first seeds. This ensures the growing food to be blessed by this saint. (Maillet)

Animals have been known to speak in human tongues on Christmas Eve. (Maillet)

If you feel that nothing is going right in your day, your homemade bread sours, or general bad luck assails you, simply boil some holy medals. (Dupont)

The first three days of the month of August, the ocean waters are known to have healing properties, and it wouldn't hurt to dip your feet in it. (Chiasson)

It was customary to trace crosses on windows using holy water when a storm would hit. (Lacroix)

To find a lost object, simply toss a rosary or a pocket metal rosary over your shoulder. The foot of the cross will point in the direction where your lost object might be located. (Dupont)

To have good weather on your wedding day, be sure to hang your rosary on your clothes line the day before. (Dupont)

Maillet, Antonine. Rabelais et les traditions populaires en Acadie. Les presses de l'université laval, quebec. 1980.

Lacroix, Benoit. Folklore de la mer et religion. Editions Leméac, 1980.

Dupont, Jean-Claude. Héritage d'Acadie. Collection Connaissance, editions Leméac, 1977.

Chiasson, Père Anselme. Chéticamp: histoire et traditions acadiennes. Editions des Aboiteaux, 1972.

[shotfromtheroad]

St. Denis Church located in Minudie, Nova Scotia

St. Denis Church built in 1848, restored in 1977. No longer used for masses. Although the land is very wet, the cemetery is still being used.

Visit link to learn more about St. Denis Church and the cemetery.

[ordantorrem]

🐘 Right wing folks follow us to punish the tyrants & rebels who stalked us with govt & tech.

❤️ this post to bring back the food, rural transport & housing the left, liberals & democrat voters always evict us with like colonizers before them.

The left wing is the majority of Tumblr & the media.

[pillowfights0098]

TUMBLR is too Liberal & biased

Used it for years, never made an account until now. This site has always been a hive for nonconformist hipsters. Especially leftists from that 2010s Simpsons episode “the Day the Earth Stood Cool”

I’m not ashamed of the fact that a Catholic school saved me, made me the wise, chill pro-intellectualist & creator I am. Straight, neurotypical jock too. Lately. I’ve been hearing people come out against the S.A. & Rez school abewse run by Prog-Liberal governments (& to be Hufflepuff fair Catholics too) that kids were kælled, verbally, emotionally sæxually & physically assaulted into conforming to Western standards. AKA Liberal/Democrat modernity, preachings & progress. It made me think that not only were the Rumors of child incarceration true. But raising prices, creating more homeless (as did Marx & his children) dependant on Left-govt welfare. SA especially in govt child care buildings.

I haven’t been able to get a job or a home. Its a harsh burden on me, my fellow Zillenials (along with cold stereotypes) and parents too.

As for Leftist Divergent LGBTQ ideology polluting nature. Immigration ideology & policies sent VERY long, carbon emitting plane & boat trips from IBegaldesh, India & Philippines (etc). Do the math for distances & minimum wage compared to apartment prices. Everyone freezes thanks to Kamala Trudeau.

Every migrant has to eat. So the litter from fast food or big grocery is plastic fueling wildfires that occur in Canada each year. It’s obvious what harm this does to Mountain glaciers, Icebergs & permafrost. Don’t get me started on the need for gas & cars to get microplastics fish & humans end up eating.

Even the UN has called this migration program “modern day/capitalist Slavery” made worse when Kamala Harris told Latinx women & children escaping civil war, gangs & abuse. Through hot deserts & jungles in the summer. “DO NOT COME x2” then sent them back to war with building some facilities after that might not work or get destroyed.

California & Massachusetts - Esoecially cities- are democrat constant states where homelessness is all over the place. No bathrooms, more Drugs & alcohol. Favours for the rich.

Reconsider your vote & ideology. Obama bombed innocent civilians.

[planet-that-i-love]

The Acadians were expelled from Europe because our fashion is too fucking cool for the continent

[twistingtreeancestry]

Day of Commemoration for the Acadian Expulsion

Image Description: A black and white portrait of the Ovillier Guillot and Eve Vice family, circa the early-to-mid 1900s. Top (children), left to right: Eunice Guillot 1922-Dec; Joseph Guillot 1926-2014; Lenus Guillot 1923-1960; Beulah Guillot 1918-1991. Bottom (parents), left to right: Ovillier Guillot 1897-1967; Eve Vice 1897-1950.

The two daughters wear similar dark, button-down dresses with white doll collars. The mother wears a dark, button-down open-collar blouse or dress. The two sons and the father wear white dress shirts covered by fastened suit jackets complete with ties.

Image by [[TBD]].

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Pictured above is my 3rd great-uncle Ovillier Guillot and his family. He is the 4th great-grandson of Jean Baptiste Guillot.

Today is the Day of Commemoration for the Acadian Expulsion.

While I have quite a few direct ancestors who lived in Nova Scotia and ended up in France at the time of the expulsion, there's only one family unit that I have been able to confirm was expelled.

That was the family of my 8th great-grandfather Jean Baptiste Guillot, born in Acadia in 1720 with his body given to the Atlantic Ocean in 1758. His family was expelled from Cobequid, Acadia, Nova Scotia to France during the brutal "Great Expulsion" by the British, who wanted to squelch any potential threats from the Acadians and the Mi'kmaq during the French and Indian War.

His son (my 7th great-grandfather) Charles Olivier Miquel Guillot was only 13 in 1758 when they had to take the long, arduous 75-day journey to France. His father Jean, along with 4 of his brothers, never made it off of the ship.

Charles grew up in France where he married and had 3 children of his own. They left France in 1785 to board one of the seven ships paid for by Spain, Le Saint-Rémi, to take them to Lafourche Parish, Louisiana.

Many members of the Wabanaki Confederacy (I believe predominately it was the Mi'kmaq militia), in addition to other affiliated Indigenous tribes and Acadians, who rallied a resistance were slaughtered or expelled. They refused to swear loyalty to the British crown and surrender to British colonists, refused to convert from Catholicism to Protestantism, and refused to allow themselves to be displaced without a fight. Numerous battles took place to stop the deportation with wins and losses across the board.

While no one has one lineage, I was raised as a proud Cajun despite having often felt ashamed of being Cajun for various reasons (like my accent). I even tried my hardest over twelve years to banish anything that could link me to my roots, not knowing the history behind a part of my ethnicity and culture.

Digging into my ancestry has been a wild ride, and there were many things found within my lineages that were not honorable in any way, but this chunk of my history? This has made me proud to be Cajun again.

I wish I had respected it more when I was still able to be immersed in it. I wish I had asked my pawpaw to tell me more stories. I wish I had kept up with Cajun French (AKA Louisiana French). I wish I hadn't let my cultural heritage fall through my fingers.

Many blessings to those who fought and lost their lives against the British colonists in an attempt to secure the freedom of not only themselves but of future generations to come.

[Disclaimer: I am still only beginning to educate myself about this event and am utilizing my current understanding of how events unfolded and who was involved. I apologize in advance for any misconceptions or misinformation regarding the historical accuracy of my comments.]