Acadia
Sign in to saveAcadia (; ) was a colony of New France in northeastern North America which included parts of what are now the Maritime provinces and the Gaspé Peninsula in Eastern Canada, and the U.S. state of Maine to the Kennebec River. Settlers primarily came from what is now known as Nouvelle-Aquitaine, a southwestern region of France, specifically from Poitou-Charentes, the Aquitaine region, as well as Poitou and Anjou. The territory was originally inhabited by various First Nations of the Wabanaki Confederacy who referred to the region as Dawnland.
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34 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- 17th century
- Acadian Civil War
- King Philip's War
- Wabanaki Confederacy
- Catholic missions
- King William's War
- 18th century
- Queen Anne's War
- Dummer's War
- King George's War
- Father Le Loutre's War (1749–1755)
- Deportation of the Acadians
- 19th century
- Acadian Renaissance
- 20th century and beyond
- Government of Louis Robichaud
- After 1970
- Territory
- Notable military figures of Acadia
- 17th–18th century
- Others
- Government
- Governance under the British after 1710
- Population
- Economy
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Citations
- Bibliography
- Further reading
- External links
Acadia (; ) was a colony of New France in northeastern North America which included parts of what are now the Maritime provinces and the Gaspé Peninsula in Eastern Canada, and the U.S. state of Maine to the Kennebec River. Settlers primarily came from what is now known as Nouvelle-Aquitaine, a southwestern region of France, specifically from Poitou-Charentes, the Aquitaine region, as well as Poitou and Anjou. The territory was originally inhabited by various First Nations of the Wabanaki Confederacy who referred to the region as Dawnland.
The first capital of Acadia was established in 1605 as Port-Royal. Soon after, English forces of Captain Argall, an English ship's captain employed by the Virginia Company of London attacked and burned down the fortified habitation in 1613. A new centre for Port-Royal was established nearby, and it remained the longest-serving capital of French Acadia until the British siege of Port Royal in 1710. There were six colonial wars in a 74-year period in which British interests tried to capture Acadia, starting with King William's War in 1689.
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