ACADIAN Region, CANADA. Episode 1

#canada #Acadia #history Acadians are one of the founding peoples of Canada with the first permanent settlement established at Port Royal in 1605, which marked the beginning of the colony known as Acadia, a colony of New France covering today’s Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, parts of eastern Quebec and Maine. The term Acadia today refers to regions of North America that are historically associated with the lands, descendants, or culture of the former region. It particularly refers to regions of the Maritimes with Acadian roots, language, and culture, primarily in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, the Magdalen Islands and Prince Edward Island, as well as in Maine. It can also refer to the Acadian diaspora in southern Louisiana, a region also referred to as Acadiana since the early 1960s. In the abstract, Acadia refers to the existence of an Acadian culture in any of these regions. People living in Acadia are called Acadians, which in Louisiana changed to Cajuns, the American pronunc