Melan-son Melan as in Melanin.. and melanated…. meaning black or dark (skinned). People who lived in French Acadie were not all from the same ethnicity.

Until they didn't...😮😢

The LeBlancs have always had powerful political leadership positions within BRITISH-RULED Acadian communities and still do. That’s a big hint.

You have names of these ancestors???

Part of the 1755 expulsion?

Jacques Bourgeois and his wife Jeanne Trahan are my great grandparents 8xs removed. ❤

Moi aussi 🙂

Still has a huge Acadian community there currently too ,I've been there to visit from New Brunswick.

Look up the deportation...😉

Yep, many of our Ancestors ended up in the Bayou Country of Louisiana, my dad was a Boudreaux.

I'm a descendant of Louis Hebert and Marie Rollet as well as the Martins and Morin families.Guillaume and Guillaumett Hebert and Coullinard.Im very proud of our history and it's people.⚜️💙

I am direct descendent of Joseph Broussard

Did you mean 'descendants'?

@@EdinburghFive Nope. Your ancestors are your ascendants. You’re a descendant of them.

@@iparipaitegianiparipaitegi4643 You are correct. I read the comment too quickly.

Which French because even in France there is not one standardized French? If you want to be true to your roots and you're an Acadian you're going to have to learn the langue d'oc not the attempts at langue d'oil I hear around Canada. France wasn't exactly France when we left it we were considered Occitan when we left.

​@@EdinburghFiveLes deux!

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Pretend there is one

The 'French and Indian War' was not between the French and Indians. It was the French and their Indian allies fighting the British and their Indian allies.

@EdinburghFive you beat me to it. That's why the rest of the world calls it the 7 years war 😂

@@RandyBoBandy9498 Good to hear from you. Technically the French and Indian War is a subordinate part of the Seven Years War and of course is confined to that part of the war in North America. The French and Indian War commenced prior to the onset of the wider Seven Years War. An aside: I always find it interesting and odd that Americans claim it was George Washington who sparked the Seven Years War (via the French and Indian War). Not so sure I would proud of that fact. Clearly there is either a lack of knowledge or misunderstanding of what was happening between France and Britain after the War of the Austrian Succession and the opening of the Seven Years War.

It's Mi'kmaq not Micmac I am doubting your credibility.

...And still good neighbors to this day.

@@mooners544 That is true in the more generic sense of the word 'French' Canadians but that is not how most Canadians us the term. French Canadians being those from Quebec and descended from same, versus the French speaking colonists and their descends from Acadia.

Interesting my grandmother was named Malvina Boudreau as well . She was married to a guy named Emmanuel La Croix however. Big families in the old days.

​@@EdinburghFiveThat's because the Quebecois see themselves as pure wool and Acadians as burnt wood. A gift from the racist old days. I personally enjoy having a mixed heritage. Racial purity is for idiots because no one is pure.

Seriously

That was an alternative name back in the day, but it's out of use now.

Hey @J. P. - No, it really wasn't. Verrazano used Arcadia for the region around Virginia. With time the name moved northeastward but it never was used for the region of what is today the Atlantic region of Canada. I believe it was William Francis Ganong who then used Arcadia as the origins of Acadia. This completely ignores the French settled their colony in the lands of the Mi'kmaq who used the term 'acadie' or 'cadie' in many place names. Ganong traces the movement of Arcadia on maps toward the northeast, I do not recall he demonstrated a solid link, but uses a bit of a leap of faith to connect the (European) dots to Acadia. European fisherman and fur traders became very familiar with the Mi'kmaq and their language, very quickly understanding Acadia had a meaning describing the place. Not too many of those fisherman and fur traders were likely familiar, given they were largely illiterate, with the word Arcadia let alone what it meant in Greek myths. Ganong comes from an era at the height of British imperialism. This was a period in Europe and North America which was highly racists in its views of the world. A society that more often than not ignored the contributions, achievements, and even the presence of the Indigenous people. These antiquarians translated the world around them in European terms.

That's always the best. The ancestors guided you to this video to let you know they are grateful you're finding them to tell their story so their legacy can live on!!!

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