I always knew that Cajuns were of French origins, and that the whole Louisiana Territory was French-inhabited, but I thought the French entered the region through the Gulf of Mexico. Nope.
Before they were Cajuns, they were Canadians. Actually, they were Acadians (from which the word "Cajun" is derived), living in what is now Nova Scotia. In the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht, the French ceded the Acadia territory to the British. The British leadership eventually ran the French population out in what was known as the Great Upheaval. The Acadians worked their way across the United States to the Gulf Coast, where, to the delight of future generations, they maintained their culinary traditions.
Do you think Bourbon Street would be the same if it was in Nova Scotia?
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Ah yes, one of the few things I actually remember from my high school US History class. The French occupied practically all of south eastern Canada (and a great portion of the rest of Canada as well) and then took a long strip of the US from the Canadian border on down to the Louisiana-ish area. The English held the tiny little New England and later some of the eastern coast. And the Spanish had lots of northern mexico and the central US that wasn't occupied by the french. Interesting to think that they kind of overlapped each other a lot... That just might be why they fought so often... maybe.
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OMG. We had to take this in England; you mean the Americans don't know this about their own history?
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Hey! Just came upon your blog randomly. We learn this stuff up Northin our Canadian History courses. Did you know that The Band wrote a song about it? It's called "Acadian Driftwood." Anyways, nice blog. Do s'more posting, please!
Nothing is better than the French kitchen! Louisiana got the best from us and is still in our heart.
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Ah yes, the Acadians. I am from Canada and we had to learn all about it. Which is not a bad thing considering many East Coasters know and love the Acadians. I spent many a summer among them - well,on the beach near them... What you didn`t mention in your post is that they were not simply "run out" , they were in large number put onto cheaply built boats and rafts and quite literally shoved out to sea to fend for themselves. When France conceded Canada the British decided they didn`t want to deal with the leftovers so they just forced them all out. Many of the Cajuns in the south States worked their way down to a safe haven in the swamps but many more actually drifted there down the coast since they were turned away at every port until there were no more ports. In the process many died. A few drifted back into Canadian shores and were treated as criminals and worse until they were eventually accepted (kind of - it took a long time!). Now they mostly live in New Brunswick. It was a dark dark time in Canadian history. Something ,many Canadians don`t like to talk about.
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As a Nova Scotian, I of course learned about the Acadians and all that jazz, even had to do the play Evangeline in grade six about the deportation...but I just assumed this was common knowledge, especially since Americans have such a proud connection to their beignets in the south.
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