Acadian
Genealogy/History Links (including some French-Canadian
Links)
- Acadia University
The official site for this Wolfville, Nova Scotia college.
- Acadia
and the Acadians
Compilation of 3 newspaper articles by Robert Chenard.
- Acadian Archives
- UMFK
Brief overview of the Acadian history and holdings at
the University of Maine, Fort Kent.
- Acadian Culture in Maine
Web edition of the 1994 National Park Service publication on the history and cultural heritage of Maine's Upper Saint John Valley.
- Acadian
and French-Canadian Genealogy by Linda Jones
Contains genealogy on 6 Acadian and 8 French-Canadian
surnames. There is also a bit of history. But it looks like
it's not being maintained.
- Acadian and French Canadian
Genealogy by John Dulong
This site has more French-Canadian material, but there
is Acadian information. Check out the section on genetics.
- Acadian
Articles by Father Clarence d'Entremont
These articles are located at Michele's Acadian GenWeb
site. There are 100 articles written by Father d'Entremont that have
been posted.
- The
Acadian Genealogy Homepage by Yvon Cyr
This site specializes in detailed
information on his Acadian CD-Rom, as well as an abundance of other links
pertaining to Acadians, Canadians, and Cajuns. Some Acadian info can be
found at the site.
- Acadian
GenWeb by Michele Doucette
Michele just started this page,
which consists of links arranged primarily by Canadian province.
- Acadian Heartland: Records of the Deportation and Le Grand Dérangement, 1714-1768
- Public Documents of the Province of Nova Scotia (T.B. Akins, 1869)
» Papers relating to the Acadian French, 1714-1755
» Papers relating to the forcible removal of the Acadian French from Nova Scotia, 1755-1768
- Papers relating to the Acadian French (Andrew Brown Collection)
- Journal of Col. John Winslow at Beausejour, Summer 1755
- Journal of Col. John Winslow at Beausejour, Autumn 1755
- Acadian Heartland: The Records of British Govt. at Annapolis Royal, 1713-1749
- The Acadian Odyssey {archived version}
Short version (about 20 pages) of Acadian history. It's no longer active, but the link takes you to the archived version.
- An Acadian Parish Remembered: The Registers of St. Jean-Baptiste, Annapolis Royal, 1702-1755
- The
Acadians of Belle Ile en Mer
This site includes information on the Acadians that attempted
the Belle Ile en Mer settlement off the coast of France..
- Acadians
at Pleudihen-sur-Rance, France (French)
- Acadie
des comtés Queens et Kings de l'Île du Prince Edouard (French) {archived version}
Information and images about the Acadians on Ile St.
Jean / PEI. This site has disappeared, but the link takes you to the archived version. Also
- Acadie - Net (French)
General website (articles, discussion, etc.) on current
Acadian matters.
- Acadiemania(French)
- Archaeological Projects
- Girouard Village Site
- Grand-Pré National Historic Site
- Melanson Settlement National Historic Site
- Minas Basin Archaeological Project
- Mission Sainte-Anne - Archeological project on an early mission church. It was located just south of Village Hebert, an Acadian settlement to the north of the Stewiacke-Shubenacadie junction.
- Thirty Lost Villages: The Minas Environs Project
- Archives acadiennes de l'Ile-de-Prince-Edouard (French) {archived version}
- Argyle Township
Court House & Archives, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Basic information on the holdings of the archives in
Argyle.
- Belle-Isle-en-Mer(French)
Good page on the island, which includes information on
the Acadians who moved there ... including lists of Acadians on the island
in 1765 and Belle-Isle Acadians who left for Louisiana in 1785.
- Blupete
Peter Landry's site is one of the best sources of Acadian
history online. He also has a comprehensive section on the Landry
family.
- 'Contact-Acadien'
Bulletin (French)
Online issues of the Centre d'Etude Acadienne journals
- CyberAcadie by Daniel Robichaud (French)
This is a very informative page
on the Acadian culture through the years. If you can read French (or are
willing to struggle through with a dictionary or translator) pay it a visit.
- Early
Canadiana Online
Excellent resource with over
3000 publications online. Pages of old books were scanned and GIF
images of the full books are online. There's a ton of material on
Canada; some I have found with Acadian content are:
 • Une
colonie féodale en Amérique (l'Acadie, 1604-1710), by
Edme Rameau
• Voyage
du sieur de Diéreville en Acadie, by N. Diereville
• Lettre
de M. l'abbé Le Guerne, missionaire de l'Acadie, by Francois
LeGuerne
• Voyages
of Samuel de Champlain, by Samuel de Champlain
• True
stories of New England captives carried to Canada during the old French
& Indian wars, by C. Alice Baker
• The
neutral French, or, The exiles of Nova Scotia, by Mrs. Williams
• Through
Evangeline's country, by Jeannette A. Grant
• Over
the border: Acadia, the home of "Evangeline", by Chase, Eliza B. (also here)
• The
rivals of Acadia : an old story of the New World, by Harriet V. Cheney
• By
the marshes of Minas, by Charles G.D. Roberts
• History
of King William's War, and the consequent negotiations between the French
and Indians,
in America
• Banishment
and removal of the Acadians, by Madame Morel de la Durantaye
•The
exile of the Acadians : the people of Longfellow's "Evangeline.", by
Madame Morel de La Durantaye.
• Heros
of Canada : based upon "Stories of New France", by Miss Machar and
T.G. Marquis; edited by T.G. Marquis.
• Epistola
ex Portu-regali in Acadia, by Pierre Biard
• Histoire
naturelle des peuples, des animaux, des arbres & plantes de l'Amerique
septentrionale & de ses divers climats: avec
une description exacte de la pêche des moluës, tant sur le Grand-Banc
qu'à la coste, et de tout ce qui s'y pratique de plus particulier,
&c., by Nicolas Denys.
• Description
geographique et historique des costes de l'Amerique septentrionale avec
l'histoire naturelle du païs, by Nicolas Denys
• Histoire
de la Nouvelle France, by Marc Lescarbot
• Histoire
et description générale de la Nouvelle France: avec le journal
historique d'un voyage fait par ordre du roi dans l'Amérique septentrionnale,
by Pierre Francois Xavier Charlevoix
• Journal
of a voyage to North-America: undertaken by order of the French King : containing
the geographical description and natural history of that country, particularly
Canada, together
with an account of the customs, characters, religion, manners and traditions
of the original inhabitants, in a series of letters to the Duchess of Lesdiguieres,
by Pierre Francois Xavier Charlevoix
• Letters
to the Dutchess of Lesdiguieres: giving an account of a voyage to Canada,
and travels through that vast country, and Louisiana, to the Gulf of Mexico
: undertaken by order of the present King of France, by Pierre Francois
Xavier Charlevoix
• Un
pèlerinage au pays d'Evangéline by H.-R. Casgrain
• Mémoires
sur le Canada depuis 1749 jusqu'à 1760: en trois parties, with
maps & images. Louis-Léonard Aumasson Courville
• Collection
de manuscrits contenant lettres, mémoires, et autres documents historiques
relatifs à la Nouvelle-France: recueillis aux Archives de la province
de Québec ou copiés à l'étranger ; mis en ordre
et édités sous les auspices de la Législature de Québec,
by Faucher de Saint-Maurice
• A
List of Micmac Names of Places, Rivers, Etc., in Nova Scotia by Elizabeth
Frame
• A
General Description of Nova Scotia: Illustrated By a New and Correct Map (1823) by Thomas Chandler Haliburton and Walter Bromley
• Through
Evangeline's Country by Jeannette A. Grant
- Encyclopedie
de Saint-Pierre et Michelon (French)
Though the pages with Acadian material have disappeared, you can find them in archived pages of the website HERE.
- Les
Acadiens et Saint-Pierre et Miquelon
- De
cette famille de MENOU, gouverneurs d'Acadie et.. de Nantes
- Aperçus
de cette histoire d'Acadie et de Saint Pierre et Miquelon et leurs relations
avec la Baie de Bourgneuf
- Le
dernier curé de Grand-Pré, en Acadie, Jean-Baptiste Chanvreulx
- Un acadien condamné et mort aux galères
- Fortress
of Louisbourg
A variety of info on the 18th century fort.
- The Acadians of Cape Breton
- Fortress of Louisburg {archived version}
- France
GenWeb
Main page for the France equivalent of USGenWeb
- The
French Connection
Information on French-Canadians (including Acadians)
out of the Waterville, Maine area
- French-Canadian
Connection by Norm Brunette
- FrancoGene by Denis Beauregard
Denis works with French genealogy in general, with a focus on French Canada. There is some material on Acadia . It includes a database on Genealogy of French in North America
- Genealogie
Acadienne by Stephen A. White (French)
Includes a link to an article he wrote with information
on about three dozen Acadian families.
- Genealogy of French in North America
A database of French genealogy; art of Denis Beauregard's FrancoGene site
- Histoire
du Canada et de l'Acadie (French) {archived version}
An excellent site on Acadian history.
It is no longer active, but the link points to the archived version.
- Historical and Genealogical Record of Colchester County
Produced by The Chignecto Project, the original work by Thomas Millar dates to 1873.
- History of the Madawaska Acadians
- Histoire
du Quebec et de l'Acadie (French)
A collection of timelines on the
history of the area.
- Il
était une fois l'Acadie by Robert Duguay {archived version}
An excellent site on Acadian
history, with the best graphical presentation of Acadian history. It is no longer active, but the link points to the archived version.
- The
Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: 1610 to 1791
The story related by the Jesuit
priests has insights into Acadia, Quebec, and the surrounding area in the
17th & 18th centuries; but most of the Acadian information is from
the beginning of the 1600s.
- The
Island Register by Dave Hunter
Genealogy on Prince Edward Island.
This site includes the 1752 Sieur de la Roque Census for Ile St. Jean.
- Isle
Madame History
- La
Maison de l'Acadie (French)
Website with text and images on
the Acadian museum at La Chaussee, France.
- Les
Acadiens {archived version}
Portage Technologies produced a CD-Rom on
the Acadians. Their site has disappeared, but you can find information on that CD archived at the link.
- Les Acadiens de Boulogne-sur-Mer (French)
Information on the Acadians who arrived at Boulogne in
1758; also the list of those who moved to St. Servan.
- Les origines
Françaises des premières familles Acadiennes (French)
Information on the possible origin of the Acadians; done
by the son of Maurice Caillebeau (one of the authors of the book by that
name).
- Madawaska GenWeb
- Maine Acadian Culture
Information from the National Park Service on the Acadians
in Maine.
- New Brunswick Genweb
Several areas of New Brunswick have a strong Acadian
background.
- New
France
- Newfoundland
Genweb: Bay St. George District
Acadians from Cape Breton and the Magdalene Islands settled
the Bay St. George area of western Newfoundland.
- Nova
Scotia Genealogy Resource Page
- Nova
Scotia GenWeb Project
- The Origins
of the Acadian Michel Forest
From John DuLong's website, and in-depth look at Acadian
progenitor Michel Forest.
- Our
Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home by Lucie LeBlanc Consentino
Dozens of resources on Acadians and French Canadians.
- Pentagoet:
An Old Town with a History
From an 1882 issue of Century Magazine.
- Poitou,
Acadie, Bretagne by Francoix Roux (French)
Francois' site has expanded recently to include a number
of documents andinformation on the Poitou settlement of the 1770s. The latest addition is the ship lists of passengers arriving at St. Malo in 1758-59 from Ile St. Jean and the Louisburg area.
- Port Toulouse, Isle Royale
- Prince
Edward Island GenWeb Project
Though short on Acadian material, this site has a number
of PEI links.
- Records of Chignecto
This work, by William Milner, appeared in vol. XV of the Nova Scotia Historical Society's publication. It is available online in its entirety courtesy of The Chignecto Project..
- Wiskipkpaqtism Off-Reserve
Mi'kmaq Bands
This site gives information on the Mi'kmaq culture.
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