#expulsion of the acadians

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Shrine to Longfellow's "Evangeline" in Acadia,” Brantford Expositor. March 28, 1930. Page 12. --- Memorial Chapel and Statue of Evangeline, at Grand Pre, the locale of Longfellow's well-known poem, "Evangeline." A pilgrimage to this spot, sacred to descendants of the Acadians, will be made this summer by 200 residents of the Teche country, South Louisiana, the district to which the greater number of the Acadians were taken when they were forced to leave their native land in 1775 -(S. N. S..)

[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.]

[verifiablebot]

it came up in conversation the other day that while i do know two other cajuns up here in washington, one is an artist that i've met but am not friends with, and the other is a friend but who doesn't seem to have much attachment to the culture

i'd been having somewhat of a cultural crisis for the last several years after moving away from the south in general, but going back home and really learning about acadian history and everything done to us has just opened up all of those complicated feelings about acadiana all over again.

and i realised that i'm really just...alone, here. i have all these thoughts and emotions but no one to talk to about them that really gets it. no one who knows the feeling of being tied by your soul to a place you can't physically be long-term anymore and how hard it is to keep that culture alive in you when you're so far away. it's just me and my books and my teach-yourself-cajun-french cds in my room while i beg my mouth to remember the accent i'm supposed to have without actively thinking about it

[just-a-queer-fanboy]

Called my dad French Canadian I think he might kill me now /j

Well, baise moi I guess

[hetrosjistin]

Cajun History and what that has to do with Palestine

Yo, you reading this? You got opinions about the fucking war in Gaza right now? You from South Louisiana like me? Then you know about the Acadian Exodus, Evangeline, the whole expulsion of the Acadians from Canada?

You ever wonder why the fuck it happened? Cause it obviously wasn't the British throwing all the french out of Canada, not with Quebec just sitting there. (Seriously, this was something that felt super implied by my teachers growing up and I have to wonder why the FUCK the whole alliance with the Wabanaki and the familial ties to the Mi'kmaq were left out of my education, maybe not wonder HARD but it's still there)

It's because the Acadians refused to turn on their Wabanaki Confederate Allies following the french and indian war, specifically the Miꞌkmaq, who the Acadians had a long history of intermarriage with. We were proof that you could integrate, peacefully, with the natives of a place and find common cause, family, and grow together. Everything the people leading Israel have proven they cannot be.

So I don't want to hear ANY shit from ANY Cajun down here about Palestinians except "Free Palestine" because boys and girls, that was our ancestors. That was us once upon a time. We are the descendants of the survivors of Genocide, the ones who refused to turn on others for their own benefit and while we've ALL had shit moments, personally and in our families, since then, that has to be something we stick too.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

New Brunswick Mi’gmaq chiefs sent a letter Wednesday to Université de Moncton president Denis Prud’homme supporting the movement to change the institution’s name.

“Mi’gmaq Chiefs New Brunswick lend their support to the university in their pursuit to change the title, to a name that is more inclusive and less offensive. From the Mi’gmaq perspective, it is simply the right thing to do,” read the letter from Mi’gwame’l Tplu’taqnn Inc. (MTI), an organization representing Mi’gmaq communities in New Brunswick.

The university will be examining the possibility of a name change at the next board of governors meeting in mid-April, in response to a petition launched by Acadian activist Jean-Marie Nadeau in March.

“With the Université de Moncton, it’s named after (Robert Monckton) who was involved in the expulsion of the Acadians,” Pabineau First Nation Chief Terry Richardson told Global News in an interview on Thursday. [...]

Continue Reading.

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 6.16 (before 1910)

632 – Yazdegerd III ascends the throne as king (shah) of the Persian Empire. He becomes the last ruler of the Sasanian dynasty (modern Iran). 1407 – Ming–Hồ War: Retired King Hồ Quý Ly and his son King Hồ Hán Thương of Hồ dynasty are captured by the Ming armies. 1487 – Battle of Stoke Field: King Henry VII of England defeats the leaders of a Yorkist rebellion in the final engagement of the Wars of the Roses. 1632 – The Plymouth Company granted a land patent to Thomas Purchase, the first settler of Pejepscot, Maine, settling at the site of Fort Andross. 1745 – War of the Austrian Succession: New England colonial troops under the command of William Pepperrell capture the Fortress of Louisbourg in Louisbourg, New France (Old Style date). 1746 – War of the Austrian Succession: Austria and Sardinia defeat a Franco-Spanish army at the Battle of Piacenza. 1755 – French and Indian War: The French surrender Fort Beauséjour to the British, leading to the expulsion of the Acadians. 1760 – French and Indian War: Robert Rogers and his Rangers surprise French held Fort Sainte Thérèse on the Richelieu River near Lake Champlain. The fort is raided and burned. 1779 – American Revolutionary War: Spain declares war on the Kingdom of Great Britain, and the Great Siege of Gibraltar begins. 1795 – French Revolutionary Wars: In what became known as Cornwallis's Retreat, a British Royal Navy squadron led by Vice Admiral William Cornwallis strongly resists a much larger French Navy force and withdraws largely intact, setting up the French Navy defeat at the Battle of Groix six days later. 1811 – Survivors of an attack the previous day by Tla-o-qui-aht on board the Pacific Fur Company's ship Tonquin, intentionally detonate a powder magazine on the ship, destroying it and killing about 100 attackers. 1815 – Battle of Ligny and Battle of Quatre Bras, two days before the Battle of Waterloo. 1819 – A major earthquake strikes the Kutch district of western India, killing over 1,543 people and raising a 6-metre-high (20 ft), 6-kilometre-wide (3.7 mi), ridge, extending for at least 80 kilometres (50 mi), that was known as the Allah Bund ("Dam of God"). 1824 – A meeting at Old Slaughter's coffee house in London leads to the formation of what is now the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA). 1836 – The formation of the London Working Men's Association gives rise to the Chartist Movement. 1846 – The Papal conclave of 1846 elects Pope Pius IX, beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy. 1858 – Abraham Lincoln delivers his House Divided speech in Springfield, Illinois. 1871 – The Universities Tests Act 1871 allows students to enter the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology). 1883 – The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England, kills 183 children. 1884 – The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park. 1897 – A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later. 1903 – The Ford Motor Company is incorporated. 1903 – Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage. 1904 – Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland. 1904 – Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".

[theiceandbones]

It really truly depresses me that I can find so little sources on Acadians in their golden age while every other article written on them is about the expulsion because these are my people and I want everyone to move away from Evangeline and tragedy. But everything, every record, was destroyed by the British, so what the world knows is a tale written by a man who never even came here.

[kirsteninthesun]

Mandatory Redesign

Ok, say the slate was wiped clean and we were forced to rewrite every. single. AG. historical. (And make them not resemble their original characters)

Kaya is Confidence, a Pilgrim girl living in New England, whose family has been in the colonies since the 1600s. Despite her name, Confidence is a shy girl who prefers to stay indoors and has trouble making friends. Her parents appreciate their dutiful daughter but worry for her future given her solitary nature. She likes to sew, knit, and draw. Over the course of her stories, she befriends a younger girl living next door, six year old Hope, and starts teaching her household skills. Through offering to teach others, she “grows into her name” as her mother says, and finds a place in her community. She has a Marie Grace mold, the lightest skin tone, light brown hair, and green eyes.

Felicity is Kimimela, a Lakota girl from the general area of North Dakota. She is athletic and high energy, and a problem solver. She tends to drift away from her responsibilities to create things of her own, and uses unorthodox ways of doing things that sometimes frustrate others. Her story focuses on her and her family’s day to day lives, trade, and an incident of conflict with the Ojibwa later in her series. Mostly, though, her story is about striking a balance between listening to your elders and teachers and coming up with ideas yourself. She has a unique facemold (close to an Addy mold with thinner lips and more Jess-like eyes), a dark medium skin tone, long dark hair with a center part, and two braids.

Caroline is Manette (short for Marie), a Haitian-American girl. She is a first generation immigrant to Louisiana, her family having left after the revolution to seek work in the United States. She is shy and a daydreamer, something that frustrates her practical mother. She likes to draw. She has a five year old brother and a much older sister, who lives in Haiti and has recently married. She would have a Claudie mold and come with her hair in microbraids. She would have Claudie’s skin tone as well.

Josefina is Aileen, a girl living in Maine on a small family homestead where her family taps maple trees to make syrup. Her family are Scottish Catholics forced out of Scotland during the Highland Clearances, and they speak a mixture of Gaelic and English at home. She likes making maple candy, swinging on a set of swings her father made for her and her older brother, and dreams of one day living in a big city. Her brother has left home and is working as a fisherman, something that makes her parents nervous. She would have a Classic mold, the classic light skin tone, and have long strawberry blonde hair worn in curls.

MG and Cecile would be Tsintah and Mayra, a Navajo girl and Mexican-American girl. Tsintah’s family herds sheep and Mayra’s father is a cowboy. The girls meet up when Tsintah comes into town to trade wool, and Mayra starts riding her horse out to help Tsintah on the ranch to make a little extra money. The girls watch the sheep together, keeping each other safe, and they use that to escape from the difficulties of their respective lives and the pressures of growing up. They like to make jewelry and make up stories. Tsintah would have a unique mold, medium-dark skin, and long braided hair. Mayra would have medium length hair, slightly lighter skin (maybe classic medium), a Josefina mold, and freckles.

Kirsten is Aurienne, an Acadian girl whose family is forced out of Canada by the British during the expulsion and travels south to Louisiana. She was previously outgoing and happy, but has retreated into herself due to the trauma of fleeing the country, and the war. She likes to sew, and makes rag dolls for the other Acadian refugee children. Her uncle died in the war, something that deeply troubles her mother. Her twin brother wants to return to Canada to fight despite being ten. Aurienne has a Marie-Grace mold, the next to lightest skin tone, streaky blonde hair in a complex braided style, and a birthmark near her eye.

Addy is Keava, a first generation Irish American girl from New York City whose father volunteers to fight for the Union. Her father is proud to fight for the country, but many other Irish immigrants are resentful of the draft, and riots break out in her neighborhood. When her father returns from the war, he is traumatized by many of the things he’s seen, and considers returning the family to Ireland, which forces Keava to confront her position in America and her fears of not fitting in anywhere else. She is sporty and high energy, and often plays with her best friend Mary, whose father died in the war. Keava has a Classic mold and long, straight strawberry blonde hair with a side part, which comes in a thick side braid a la Josefina. She has the next to lightest skin tone.

Samantha is Karen, a Norwegian girl who immigrates to North Dakota with her single mother. Her mother has a sister in America, and the death of Karen’s father means that her mother can no longer support herself in Norway. Her story deals with the conflict between mother-country ethnic groups and their diasporas, as Karen is very different from her Americanized relatives. (I take inspiration from Rebecca and Ana here.) Karen struggles in school and has dyslexia and dyscalculia. She likes to paint and draw, and is very imaginative. She also likes traditional folk embroidery. She envies kids with siblings, and imagines herself as part of a big wealthy family back in Norway. Her desire to return home is not resolved. Over the course of the story, her mother meets a man she marries, and Karen accepts her new stepfather slowly but learns to love him. The story ends with them having a new baby, and she begins to connect her daydreams to her real life and stop living in fantasy all the time. Karen has medium length light blonde hair with bangs and a Classic mold, and the lightest skin tone. She also has freckles.

Rebecca is Ailuen, a Chinese immigrant to San Francisco. She immigrated when she was four, and does not remember China. She attends a small school for the first time in her life. She is a talented singer and wants to sing in the opera one day. Her father is offered a job opportunity mining near Death Valley, and she is uprooted once again, taking her out of school and to the hottest, driest place in the country. She does not like living there, and the hard work affects her family. Her brother becomes ill and she stands up to the company town owner to get medicine for him. By the end of her series, her family returns to San Francisco. She is assertive and strong, and takes initiative to meet her needs and help others. She likes wordplay and scary stories. Ailuen would have the Corinne mold, the classic light tone, and shoulder length black hair. 

Claudie is Yael, a Jewish girl living in New Jersey. She likes music, and plays violin like her uncle, who she is close with. Her mother’s side of the family is more conservative than her father’s, and there’s conflict between them that she sometimes struggles to navigate or understand. She is shy around strangers, but around her family and friends she’s funny and friendly. When her uncle leaves New Jersey for New York City, Yael feels betrayed and hurt and runs away from home to find him. She makes it to New York City, but the trip is scary and dangerous, and she learns her lesson about running away. Yael has the Josefina mold, dark tight curls just past her shoulders, and a custom skin tone, kind of an “olive” tone. She also wears wire rimmed glasses.

Kit is Mariama, a Gullah girl who wants to be a movie star. She saves pennies under her bed to move to Hollywood, where she imagines acting in movies of her own creation. But those dreams are a long way away, and at home her boring responsibilities frustrate her. She has twin baby brothers who eat up her parents attention and a grandmother who scares her a little. Over the story she grows to respect her grandmother and learn more about her, and it turns out her grandmother is very receptive to her wild dreams. She promises to one day act in a movie about her grandmother’s life. Mariama has the Addy mold, long textured hair that comes in thick twists, and the darkest skin tone.

Nanea is Lynne Muuka, an Aleut girl who is displaced during WW2. Her family is removed from her home and sent to a camp on the peninsula, where illness and fear are rampant. She hears the story of Attu Island, which was invaded by the Japanese and its inhabitants taken prisoner or killed. Her parents are subsistence hunters and she fears for her beloved dogs. At the camp, she befriends a girl who has lost her mother to influenza. Her story would close with her family being relocated to Dutch Harbor, where they must find a new way of life in fishing, which would extend it past the end of the war/Nanea’s timeline. She has a baby brother who she brings everywhere. They don’t see their dogs again, but in Dutch Harbor she gets a puppy. Her story would look critically at the US government’s actions in WW2 (as Nanea’s did). Lynne Muuka would have the Jess mold, Kanani’s skin tone, and two black braids halfway down her back (think Molly.)

Molly is Mariela, a Mexican-American girl from LA who loses her father in the war. She faces everyone else celebrating while she feels like “she’s the Germans” because she “lost” the war. Her grief translates into isolation and irritability, and she lashes out at her mother and siblings, and neglects her schoolwork. She likes baseball and soccer, and in school enjoys playing drums in band. As the story progresses, she opens up to her mother about her grief. She visits her father’s family in Mexico, which helps her feel like he’s not “all the way gone”. She has the Addy mold, a medium skin tone, bobbed dark hair with half-bangs, and dark eyes.

Maryellen is Yekatarina, called Katya, Katenka, or Katie, who is a Russian-American girl living in Denver. She is cheerful and enthusiastic, and willing to open up to strangers. She and her brother have a newspaper route. Her parents left Russia when they were young, just after the revolution, and it’s difficult to communicate with her grandparents. She fears that her parents might be arrested for writing to Russia, a worry that bullies at school reinforce. She wants to be a vet, and loves feeding the stray cats in the neighborhood. Katya has a unique mold (think Jess eyes, Josefina nose, Classic lips), the lightest skin tone, blue eyes, and medium length dark blonde going on brown hair with bangs.

Melody is Ellen, a girl living in rural North Texas during the oil boom. She’s a friendly but not overly outgoing girl with a big group of friends. She’s a barrel racer, her family farms pecans, and she loves horses, dogs, and cows. Her beloved aunt lives in Dallas, and Ellen goes on a trip all by herself to visit. She loves games and is competitive. She and her friends often have sleepovers. She has three siblings. Ellen has the Joss mold, green eyes, very light blonde hair worn in French braids, and the lightest skin tone. 

Julie is Kim-Khanh, a Vietnamese girl living in Cajun country. She was born in Vietnam but doesn’t remember it, though her brother has troubling memories of the war. She’s friendly and creative, loves drawing and painting, and draws all over the walls of her bedroom. Her dad is a fisherman who often delivers to fusion cuisine restaurants. Her mom operates a home daycare. She wants to be a comic book artist. She babysits with her friends for pocket change, which she spends on candy and comic books. She has the Jess mold, the classic medium skin tone, and long, straight dark hair with two braids like Julie’s in the sides.

Courtney is Heather, who lives in Yellowstone with her biologist and geologist parents, and has cerebral palsy and uses crutches. Her mom is very invested in disability activism. She likes nature photography and is lonely without many kids in the park. She goes to all the talks and activities for kids, but the friendships she makes are short. A boy, Charlie, arrives in the park, living with his single park ranger father. He’s fifteen, but like Heather, he’s bored being on his own, and so they go off on adventures together, often on horseback. Heather has been doing horse therapy since she was a toddler, and she’s a better rider than walker. The kids explore the whole park and encounter tourists, wild animals, and geothermal pools. When Charlie gets a long distance girlfriend who comes to visit, Heather feels left out. Heather has short brown curls, a Classic mold, dark brown eyes, lots of freckles, and the classic light skin tone.

Isabel and Nicki are Annie, a Blackfeet girl living in Browning, Montana. Her brother is a member of the Chief Mountain Hotshots, a star firefighting crew. Annie loves puzzles, and once won a talent show by solving a Rubix cube in under a minute. Her love for puzzles makes her a natural with computers. She spends every minute she can on the library computers, and dreams of having one at home. Her brother buys her a GameBoy with his newfound firefighter money. She is a little bit of a know-it-all. She’s outgoing, friendly, and talkative. She challenges herself to build and solve puzzles in new ways, like solving a jigsaw blindfolded or building a wooden block puzzle based on drawings from a library book. She has the Jess mold, long black braids, Kanani’s skin tone, and glasses.

[hugh-lauries-bald-spot]

re: Acadian: it's been a decade+ since I learned this stuff in history classes, but if memory serves, basically Acadian culture developed out of French settlements in the Maritime provinces ("Acadia" being a colony at one point). so, distinct from Québécois culture. and as governmental rule changed with English domination, there was the Great Expulsion, where tons of Acadians were forceably resettled. a good many ended up in Louisiana, and "Cajun" comes from the mixing of Creoles and les Acadiens (highlighting so you can see the sonic morphology). there are still Acadian communities in the Maritimes tho (I think mostly in New Brunswick?)

whatever people are saying about your accent may well be BS, but the "3 different answers" to what Acadian even is may be because Acadian culture has these diverging histories

ahhh merci merci!! thats interesting and much more clear cause no matter how many sites i read i was basically given "its sorta france 400 years ago, the maritimes now, and quebecish" and those are such wildly different accents that i was even more lost than before! i've never been to the maritime provinces, but i hear if you only speak quebecois french good fucking luck speaking acadian.

and i was looking at different sort of pronunciation differences in acadian french (mainly the 'ou' versus 'o' sounds) and whatever the bally hell ive got going on and ive concluded: yeah the person who told me i speak acadian french didnt know what it meant or not fully

most people say my french isnt distinctly from anywhere, theres a bit of mix and match pronunciation from france and quebec and my beloved anglicismes <3 it definitely leans more quebecois tho

thank you for taking the time to explain that, its very helpful /gen!!

[tomwambsmilk]

Sorry I’m just now putting the terror into its proper historical context. In my mind I was classifying it with, like, John Cabot and Henry Hudson and Alexander Mackenzie, the early explorers. But 1847 is only 20 years before Canadian Confederation. It’s after the War of 1812 and the Acadian Expulsion and the Upper Canada Rebellion and the 7 Years War and all sort of other major historical events that were really fundamental to shaping Canadian identity. This was an expedition that happened into the northernmost corner of a land that, further south, had already been pretty thoroughly colonized. The juxtaposition between the raw, untouched danger of the North vs the well-established cities and systems and communities only a few thousand kilometres south is…. Really something

[kimberly40]

Southerners love tradition and Chow Chow is one of those. Chow Chow is a vegetable relish made with cabbage, onions, peppers, spices and other items. These ingredients are pickled in a canning jar. Some family’s recipes have been handed down from generation to generation.

Some believe that chow-chow found its way to the southern United States during the expulsion of the Acadian people from Nova Scotia and their settlement in Louisiana. It is eaten by itself or as a condiment on fish cakes, pinto beans, hot dogs, hamburgers and other foods. Others cite a connection to relish recipes of Chinese rail workers in the 1800s and Indian chutneys.

What do you eat your Chow Chow on?

(Kim Wright 2018)

[brookston]

Holidays 7.28

Holidays

Accountant's Day

Admiral George Somers Day (Bermuda)

Anniversary of the Fall of Fascism (San Marino)

Beatrix Potter Day

Buffalo Soldiers Day

Day of Cantabria Institutions (Spain)

Day of Commemoration of the Great Upheaval (Canada)

Drink 728 Day

Expulsion of the Acadians (Canada)

Fat Tony Day

Fiesta Patrias (Peru)

Foxtrot Day

Fingerprint Day

Global Plastic Overshoot Day

Gone-ta-Pott Day [every 28th]

Hariyali Amavasya (Chhattisgarh, India)

Indigenous Day (Chile)

International Clothing Day

Karkidaka Vavu Bali (Kerala, India)

Kingsmen Day (Portland, Oregon)

Kermesse (Brussels, Belgium)

Liberation Day (San Marino)

Mad Day Out (The Beatles)

Miami Day

National Fingerprint Day

National Soccer Day

National Tree Day (Australia)

National Waterpark Day

Ólavsøka Eve (a.k.a. Ólavsøkuaftan; Faroe Islands)

Retail Employees’ Day (Belarus, Kazakhstan; Ukraine)

SB19 Day (California)

Shampoo Outdoors Day

Singing Telegram Day (Western Union)

St. Olav’s Eve (Norway)

Watering Can Day (French Republic)

World Hepatitis Day (UN)

World Nature Conservation Day

World War One Anniversary Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Chili Dog Day

Longneck Day

National Hamburger Day

National Milk Chocolate Day

Independence & Related Days

Day of Cantabria Institutions Day (Spain)

Day of Ukrainian Statehood (Ukraine)

Peru (from Spain, 1821)

4th & Last Sunday in July

Auntie's Day [4th Sunday]

Domhnach Chrom Dubh (Grain Festival; Ireland) [Last Sunday]

Father’s Day (Dominican Republic) [Last Sunday]

National Parents' Day [4th Sunday]

National Stepfamilies Day (Australia) [Last Sunday]

National Tree Day (Australia) [Last Sunday]

Navy Day (Russia) [Last Sunday]

Pile of Bones (Canadian Picnic) [Last Sunday]

Open Farm Day (Maine) [4th Sunday]

Pisco Day (Peru) [4th Sunday]

Procession of Penitence/Pleasure Fair (Belgium) [Last Sunday]

Reek Sunday (Ireland) [Last Sunday]

Tsushima Tennoo Matsuri (津島天王祭り; Shōjō Festival, Japan) [4th Sunday]

World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly [4th Sunday]

Weekly Holidays beginning July 28 (Last Week of July)

Samoan Heritage Week (thru 8.3)

Festivals Beginning July 28, 2024

Austerlitz Blueberry Festival (Austerlitz, New York)

Furano Belly Button Festival (Heso Matsuri; Furano, Japan) [thru 7.29]

Pear Fair (Courtland, California)

Playtime (New York, New York) [thru 7.30]

Simmer Down Festival (Birmingham, UK)

A Taste Of Camarillo (Camarillo, California)

Feast Days

Albert Namatjira (Artology)

Alphonsa Muttathupadathu (Syro-Malabar Catholic Church)

Arduinus of Trepino (Christian; Saint)

Baptism of Kyivan Rus (Eastern Orthodox Church; Ukraine)

Beatrix Potter (Artology; Writerism)

Birthday of Horus (Ancient Egypt)

Botvid (Christian; Saint)

Day Noah Released a Dove and Raven (Christian)

Dick Sprang (Artology)

Festival of Fortuna Huiusque Diei (Fortune of the Present Day; Ancient Rome)

Festival of Hedjihotep (goddess of weaving; Ancient Egypt)

Festival of Neptune (Ancient Rome)

Flute-Snatcher (Muppetism)

Gerard Manley Hopkins (Writerism)

Imp-Handling Conference (Shamanism)

Innocent I, Pope (Christian; Saint)

Jean Roba (Artology)

Jim Davis (Artology)

Joaquín Torres García (Artology)

Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frederick Handel, Henry Purcell (Episcopal Church commemoration)

Johann Sebastian Bach, Heinrich Schütz, George Frederick Handel (Lutheran commemoration)

John Ashbery (Writerism)

Jon J. Muth (Artology)

Judith Leyster (Artology)

Kronia (Festival to Kronos, god of the harvest; Ancient Greece)

Malcolm Lowry (Writerism)

Marcel Duchamp (Artology)

Marty Feldman Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Nazarius and Celsus (Christian; Martyrs)

Pantaleon (Christian; Martyr)

Pedro Poveda Castroverde (Christian; Saint)

Plant a Prayer Honoring the Dark Fertility God, From Dubh Day (Ireland; Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Samson of Dol (Christian; Saint)

Shabbat Nachamu (Shabbat of Consolation; Judaism) [Date Varies]

Solstitium XIV (Pagan)

Stefan Filipkiewicz (Artology)

Teniers (Positivist; Saint)

Thor’s Day (Pagan Europe; Everyday Wicca)

Try a New Cheese Day (Pastafarian)

Victor I, Pope (Christian; Martyr)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [28 of 53]

Umu Limnu (Evil Day; Babylonian Calendar; 35 of 60)

Premieres

Alice in Wonderland (Animated Disney Film; 1951)

Andy Panda’s Pop (Andy Panda Cartoon; 1941)

Animal House (Film; 1978)

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (Film: 2023)

Atomic Blonde (Film; 2017)

Call For the Saint, by Leslie Charteris (Short Stories 1948) [Saint #28]

Carmen’s Veranda (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1944)

The Cat’s Out (a.k.a. The Cat’s Nightmare; Silly Symphony Disney Cartoon; 1931)

The Devils of Loudun, by Aldous Huxley (History Book; 1952)

Foxtrot (Dance; 1914)

Green Lantern: First Flight (WB Animated Film; 2009)

The Hero With a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell (History Book; 1949)

Hooper (Film; 1978)

Justice League: Gods and Monsters (WB Animated Film; 2015)

Keep ‘em Growing (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1943)

Leghorn Swigged (WB MM Cartoon; 1951)

Los Bandoleers (Short Film; 2009) [F&F]

Love in a Cottage (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1940)

The Miracle Worker (Film; 1962)

North by Northwest (Film; 1959)

The Old Fire Horse (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1939)

On the Waterfront (Film; 1954)

The Open Society and its Enemies Karl Popper (Political Theory; 1945)

Robin Hood: Men in Tights (Film; 1993)

Royal Garden Blues, recorded by John Kirby & His Sextette (Song; 1939)

Smoke on the Water, by Deep Purple (Song; 1973)

Waterworld (Film; 1995)

What’s the 411?, by Mary J. Blige (Album; 1992)

White Zombie (Film; 1932)

Today’s Name Days

Ada, Adele, Bantus, Beatus, Innozenz, Samuel, Viktor (Austria)

Celzo, Inocent, Nazarije, Nikanor, Prohor, Viktor (Croatia)

Viktor (Czech Republic)

Aurelius (Denmark)

Maasika, Vaarika (Estonia)

Atso (Finland)

Samson (France)

Ada, Adele, Benno, Innozenz (Germany)

Afxentios, Akakios, Hrysovalantou , Drosos, Drosoula, Irini, Timon (Greece)

Szabolcs (Hungary)

Nazario, Vittore (Italy)

Cecilija, Cilda (Latvia)

Ada, Augmina, Inocentas, Vytaras (Lithuania)

Reidar, Reidun (Norway)

Innocenta, Innocenty, Marcela, Pantaleon, Samson, Świętomir, Wiktor, Wiktoriusz (Poland)

Krištof (Slovakia)

Víctor (Spain)

Botvid, Seved (Sweden)

Lysander, Lysandra, Rhonda, Sampson, Samson (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 210 of 2024; 156 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 7 of Week 30 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Tinne (Holly) [Day 23 of 28]

Chinese: Month 6 (Xin-Wei), Day 23 (Gui-Si)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 22 Tammuz 5784

Islamic: 21 Muharram 1446

J Cal: 30 Red; Lastday [30 of 30]

Julian: 15 July 2024

Moon: 45%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 13 Dante (8th Month) [Teniers]

Runic Half Month: Thorn (Defense) [Day 5 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 39 of 94)

Week: 4th Week of July

Zodiac: Leo (Day 7 of 31)

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Mythic Creatures by Culture & Region

Part 2: Settler (Colonial) & Diasporic Tales of Australia & the Americas

Overview here.

• Australian Settler Folktales Drop Bear; Easter Bilby; Oozlum Bird (oozlum bird also in Britain)

Canadian Settler Folktales

Cadborosaurus B.C.; Cressie; Igopogo Barrie; Manipogo; Memphre; Mussie; Red Lady; Thetis Lake Monster; Turtle Lake Monster

USAmerican Settler folktales including African diaspora

Agropelter, Maine & Ohio; Alfred Bulltop Stormalong Massachussets; Altamaha-ha in Georgia, U.S.A, see Muskogee; Anansi is Akan (which includes the Agona, Akuapem, Akwamu, Akyem, Anyi, Ashanti, Baoulé, Bono, Chakosi, Fante, Kwahu, Sefwi, Wassa, Ahanta, and Nzema) also found in African American lore; Red Ghost (Arizona camel with skeleton on its back); Augerino western USA, including Colorado; Axehandle hound Minnesota and Wisconsin; Ball-tailed cat; Beaman Monster; Bear Lake Monster; Beast of Bladenboro; Beast of Busco; Bell Witch; Belled buzzard American South; Bessie northeast Ohio and Michigan; Bigfoot; Black Dog; Blafard; Bloody Bones; Bloody Mary; Boo hag; Br'er Rabbit; Brown Mountain Lights; Cactus cat American Southwest; Calafia Amazon Queen (Caliph) that California is named after; Champ; Chessie; Dark Watchers; Demon Cat Washington D.C.; Dewey Lake Monster; Dover Demon; Dungavenhooter Maine, Michigan; Emperor Norton; Enfield Monster (NOT Enfield); Flathead Lake Monster; Flatwoods Monster; Flying Africans; Fouke Monster Arkansas; Fur-bearing trout; Gallinipper; Gillygaloo; Glawackus; Gloucester sea serpent; Golden Bear; Goofus Bird; Gumberoo; Hidebehind; Hillbilly Beast of Kentucky; Hodag; Honey Island Swamp Monster; Hoop Snake; Hudson River Monster; Hugag; Jackalope; Jersey Devil; Joint Snake; Jonathan Moulton; Lady Featherflight; Lagahoo; Lake Worth Monster; Lava bear Oregon, appear to have been real animals but not a unique species; Letiche (Cajun folktale, from descendants of the Acadian expulsion) Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp; Loveland Frog; Ludwig the Bloodsucker; Mãe-do-Ouro; Mami Wata also African; Maryland Goatman; Melon-heads; Michigan Dogman; Milton lizard; Mogollon Monster; Momo the Monster; Mothman; Nain Rouge Detroit, Michigan; New Jersey folktales; North Shore Monster; Onza; Ozark Howler; Pope Lick Monster; Proctor Valley Monster; Railroad Bill; Red Ghost; Red Lady; Reptilian; Resurrection Mary; Sharlie; Sidehill Gouger; Signifying monkey; Skunk Ape; Snallygaster; Snipe Hunt; Snow Snake; Splintercat; Squonk; Tahoe Tessie; Tailypo; Teakettler; The Witch of Saratoga; Tuttle Bottoms Monster; Two-Toed Tom; Walgren Lake Monster; Wampus Cat; White River Monster; Wild Man of the Navidad

Latin American Folklore

Aido Hwedo, Haiti & also in Benin; Alebrije (born from a dream, Mexican paper mache folk art); Baccoo could be based off Abiku of Yoruba lore; Bestial Beast bestial centaur; Boiuna; Boto and Boto_and_Dolphin_Spirits; Bruja; Bumba Meu Boi; Burrokeet; Cadejo; Camahueto; Capelobo; Carbuncle; Carranco; Chasca El Salvador; Chickcharney; Ciguapa Dominica; Cipitio; Damballa; Day of the Dead; Death; Douen; Duende; Duppy; El Sombrerón Guatemala; Folktales of Mexico; Headless Mule; Hombre Gato; Honduran Creatures; Huay Chivo; Ibo loa (also Igbo in West Africa); Jumbee; Kasogonagá (Toba in Argentina); La Bolefuego; La Diablesse; La Llorona; La mula herrada; La Sayona; Lang Bobi Suzi; Madre de aguas; Mama D'Leau; Minhocão; Mono Grande; Monster of Lake Fagua; Monster of Lake Tota; Muan; Muelona; Nahuelito; Obia also a word for a West African mythological creature (see article); Papa Bois; Patagon aka Patagonian Giant; Patasola; Phantome (Trinidad, Tobago, Guyana); Pishtaco; Princess Eréndira; Quimbanda; Romãozinho; Saci; Sayona ; Sihuanaba; Sisimoto; Soucouyant; Succarath; Tapire-iauara; Tata Duende; The Cu Bird; The Silbón; Tulevieja; Tunda; Zombie Bolivia; Abchanchu; Acalica; El Tío Colombia; Colombian Creatures; El Hombre Caimán; Tunda

Please note that some of these beings (those from Latin America or from diasporic African religions like Santeria, Vodun and Candomble) are sacred and be responsible about their use in art (writing etc.).

Notify me of any mistakes or to add disclaimers when something is considered sacred and off-limits.

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"That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong."

2 Corinthians 12:10

COMMUNITY EXPULSIONS

My wife and I live in Nova Scotia in the summer time. Not far from our cottage is the museum, church and statue of Evangeline in Grand Pre, Nova Scotia commemorating the Acadian expulsion of 1755—a black mark in Canadian history.

When the British conquered Port Royal in 1710 after being ceded Acadia (Nova Scotia) under the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht, they found themselves up against a French speaking people who had developed a strong sense of independence against British and French rule. The Acadians initially refused to recognise British rule, wanting to keep their religious freedom and not wanting to be obliged to bears arms in the event of war. These conditions were accepted only in 1730 and, at that point, the Acadians were recognised as neutral subjects within the colony.

But in September of 1755, Charles Lawrence, the appointed governor of Nova Scotia, gathered the Acadians in the St. Charles Church in Grand Pre in order to read the declaration that they must relinquish their possessions to the British Crown and that they would be deported for their unwillingness to swear allegiance to the King of England. Unaware of what awaited them in the church, many Acadians were taken prisoner and deported to American colonies, France, and England, and several thousand died from drowning, misery, illness and starvation during the long ocean voyages. Families were separated and shipped out in different directions. Their farms and homes were burned so they would have nothing to return to.

Longfellow immortalised the tragic story with his epic poem about a mythical young girl, Evangeline, cruelly separated from her fiancé, Gabriel. They were reunited at his death bed.

Many other countries and cultures have sad memories of expulsions. One is on-going today in Chiapas, the southernmost state of Mexico. More than 35,000 indigenous evangelical Christians have been expelled from their communities just because they are evangelicals and no longer taking part in their community’s religious practices and rituals. They live in refugee-like camps.

One of those is Pascuala who was asleep when the community leaders came to burn her home. She woke up in time to warn her family. Fortunately one brother and sister were not there but the four children in the home were macheted, shot or burned to death as they tried to flee. Pascuala herself was shot and raped. She survived by feigning death. Weak and bleeding, she walked many hours to a hospital where her life was saved. But she says, “Since that time my desire is to help the people who are persecuted for Jesus because I feel their pain. I got in touch with Open Doors; they encouraged me to keep going with love. With their help I was able to get some supplies of embroidery thread for crafts to help other women…If God allowed me to live through my persecution, it is for one reason—to proclaim His name.”

Response

I will thank God for my challenges because they enable me to overcome and be strong.

Prayer

Pray for those still dealing with pain, separation and loss from community expulsions.

© 2013 Open Doors International. Used by permission.

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Live Footage: Lisa LeBlanc Performs "Dans l'jus" at Francos de Montréal 2023

Live Footage: Lisa LeBlanc Performs "Dans l'jus" at Francos de Montréal 2023 @lisaleblancyo @bonsound @bonsoundpromo @girlieaction @rosieboyd @FrancosMTL @QDS_MTL @icirctele

Lisa LeBlanc is an acclaimed Rosaireville, New Brunswick-born, Montréal-based singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (banjo and guitar), who proudly claims Acadian heritage — and comes from a family of passionate music lovers. (In case you’re curious — as I was — Cajuns are often described as descendants of Acadian exiles, who went to Louisiana during Britain’s Great Expulsion of Acadians…