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Early French settler in the Maritimes
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acadian
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Acadians are natives of Acadia , a region of northeastern North America (see also Cajuns and Expulsion of the Acadians ). Acadian may also mean: Acadian (train) , a Southern Pacific passenger train Acadian (automobile) , a make of automobile produced by ...
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Acadian \A*ca"di*an\, a. Of or pertaining to Acadia, or Nova Scotia. ``Acadian farmers.'' --Longfellow. -- n. A native of Acadie. Acadian epoch (Geol.), an epoch at the beginning of the American paleozoic time, and including the oldest American ...
Usage examples of acadian.
French priests minister to the Acadian farmers outside the fort, to the sinister Indians ever lying in ambush, to the French bushrovers under young St.
News of the war and of the ravaging of Acadian fishing towns set Massachusetts in flame.
English and prevent the Acadian farmers taking the oath of fidelity to England.
In a few days the English cannon had been placed in a circle round the fort, and set such strange music humming in the ears of the besieged that the Acadian farmers deserted and the priest nervously thought of flight.
The men of the Acadian settlements were summoned to the churches to hear the will of the King of England.
Strange children rambled beneath the little dormer windows of the Acadian cottages, and the voices of the boys at play in the apple orchards shouted in an alien tongue.
The infamous Le Loutre is still in prison in England, and when he is released, in 1763, he toils till his death, in 1773, trying to settle the Acadian refugees on some of the French islands of the English Channel.
Our eyes lingered as long as possible and with all eagerness upon these meadows and marshes which the poet has made immortal, and we regretted that inexorable Baddeck would not permit us to be pilgrims for a day in this Acadian land.
Nothing is more strange than the incongruous mixture of the forms of feudalism with the independence of the Acadian woods.
They continually encroached on Acadian fishing grounds, and we hear at one time of a hundred of their vessels thus engaged.
A large collection of Acadian documents, from the archives of Paris, is in my possession.
I have also examined the Acadian collections made for the government of Canada and for that of Massachusetts.
A sort of chronic warfare of aggression and reprisal, closely akin to piracy, was carried on at intervals in Acadian waters by French private armed vessels on one hand, and New England private armed vessels on the other.
As late as 1698, we find Acadian officials advising the reconstruction of the fort.
They employed the two deserters, joined with two Acadian prisoners, to kidnap Saint-Castin, whom, next to the priest Thury, they regarded as their most insidious enemy.