Winds Of L Acadie

Author : Lois Donovan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Acadians
ISBN : 1553800478

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Winds of L'Acadie by Lois Donovan Pdf

When sixteen-year-old Sarah from Toronto learns that she is to spend the summer with her grandparents in Nova Scotia, she is convinced that it will be the most tedious summer ever. She gets off to a rough start when she meets Luke, the nephew of her grandmother's friend, and one unfortunate event leads to another. Just when she thinks her summer cannot get much worse, she finds herself transported to Acadia in 1755.Here she meets Anne and learns much about the Acadian culture and history and the Acadians' relations with the Mi'kmac people. She also experiences the warmth she has always wanted of a closely knit family. When Sarah realizes that the peace-loving Acadians are about to be torn from their homes and banished to distant shores, she is desperate to find a way to help them. Forced to abandon her pampered, stylish lifestyle, Sarah uncovers a strength and determination she did not know she possessed.Although Sarah has to come to terms with the fact that "you can't change history," she is willing to risk her life to do everything in her power to help her Acadian family, and finds a surprising ally in Luke. Winds of L'Acadie, a historical novel for readers ten and up, reveals a painful part of Canadian history through the relationship of two young women from different centuries.

Author : RM Lucie Comeau-Kroshus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1738811905

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Scattered to the Four Winds by RM Lucie Comeau-Kroshus Pdf

For more than one hundred years the Acadians lived a bucolic life, free of worries and stresses in Nova Scotia on land they thought was paradise... They called it Acadia... And then the British ruined everything... While a bitter war raged between France and England over possession of Acadia, the Acadians flourished and became self-sufficient and independent. Eventually the British took control. The British grew to resent the Acadians because they were occupying all of the province's rich fertile land, land they coveted for their British subjects. They believed the Acadians were 'secret enemies' and that they were encouraging 'the savages to cut their throats'. So, they devised a plan to forcefully remove them from the province and scatter them to the four corners of the earth. They called it 'a great and noble scheme' and 'one of the greatest things that the British ever did in America'. Pierre Comeau was one of the first Europeans to set foot on Acadian soil in Canada's east coast of Nova Scotia in the early 1600s. He became the patriarch of all the Comeaus in North America. Despite the tragic events of the Great Upheaval in 1755, when the Acadians where forcefully removed from their land and deported throughout the thirteen British colonies, Pierre's descendants survived. Today they continue to thrive all over the world. Based on true events, Scattered to the Four Winds follows Pierre's descendants from Acadia to Quebec to Minnesota to Saskatchewan on a journey filled with hardships, and misfortunes that no man should ever have to endure. Their migration, covering three hundred years, is told through the voice of Harry Comeau Jr., an eighth generation Comeau who's family settled in Saskatchewan. Harry believes that his ancestor's triumphant journey not only paved the way for his existence, but rooted him with a deep affection for his Acadian heritage. In many ways it shape his life, his character and his personality.

Author : Jerry White
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1554582121

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The Radio Eye by Jerry White Pdf

The Radio Eye: Cinema in the North Atlantic, 1958–1988, examines the way in which media experiments in Quebec, Newfoundland, the Faroe Islands, and the Irish-Gaelic-speaking communities of Ireland use film, video, and television to advocate for marginalized communities and often for “smaller languages.” The Radio Eye is not, however, a set of isolated case studies. Author Jerry White illustrates the degree to which these experiments are interconnected, sometimes implicitly but more often quite explicitly. Media makers in the North Atlantic during the period 1958–1988 were very aware of each other’s cultures and aspirations, and, by structuring the book in two interlocking parts, White illustrates the degree to which a common project emerged during those three decades. The book is bound together by White’s belief that these experiments are following in the idealism of Soviet silent filmmaker Dziga Vertov, who wrote about his notion of “the Radio Eye.” White also puts these experiments in the context of work by the Cuban filmmaker and theorist Julio García Espinosa and his notion of “imperfect cinema,” Jürgen Habermas and his notions of the “public sphere,” and Édourard Glissant’s ideas about “créolité” as the defining aspect of modern culture. This is a genuinely internationalist moment, and these experiments are in conversation with a wide array of thought across a number of languages.

Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000134001

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Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Pdf

Author : Sir James Edward Alexander
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Acadia
ISBN : OXFORD:N10542910

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L'Acadie by Sir James Edward Alexander Pdf

Author : Sherrill C Wark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Acadia
ISBN : 1927058341

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Refuge in L'Acadie by Sherrill C Wark Pdf

Author : John Mack Faragher
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393242430

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A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland by John Mack Faragher Pdf

"Altogether superb: an accessible, fluent account that advances scholarship while building a worthy memorial to the victims of two and a half centuries past." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme" to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French") from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable families, and driving many into forests where they waged a desperate guerrilla resistance. The right of neutrality; to live in peace from the imperial wars waged between France and England; had been one of the founding values of Acadia; its settlers traded and intermarried freely with native Mikmaq Indians and English Protestants alike. But the Acadians' refusal to swear unconditional allegiance to the British Crown in the mid-eighteenth century gave New Englanders, who had long coveted Nova Scotia's fertile farmland, pretense enough to launch a campaign of ethnic cleansing on a massive scale. John Mack Faragher draws on original research to weave 150 years of history into a gripping narrative of both the civilization of Acadia and the British plot to destroy it.

Author : Carl A. Brasseaux,University of Southwestern Louisiana. Center for Louisiana Studies
Publisher : Lafayette : Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015024806807

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"Scattered to the Wind" by Carl A. Brasseaux,University of Southwestern Louisiana. Center for Louisiana Studies Pdf

Mainly covers the Acadian dispersal in the United States and Canada.

Author : Michael Levy,Farah Mendlesohn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781107018143

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Children's Fantasy Literature by Michael Levy,Farah Mendlesohn Pdf

A comprehensive study of children's fantasy literature across the English-speaking world, from the sixteenth century to the present.

Author : Beverly A. Brenna
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Children
ISBN : 9781551307299

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Stories for Every Classroom by Beverly A. Brenna Pdf

Academic study of children's literature has explored various aspects of diversity; however, little research has examined Canadian books that portray characters with disabilities. This relevant and timely text addresses the significant dearth of research by exploring the treatment of disability in Canadian literature for young people. Engaging and highly accessible, this text will assist teachers, teacher educators, and teacher candidates in finding and using books about characters where disability is a part of their characterization, supporting the development of curricula that reflect critical literacy and social justice issues. Stories for Every Classroom explores the historical patterns and trends, theoretical frameworks, and critical literacy methods used to understand and teach children's literature and its portrayal of characters with disabilities. It provides educators with curriculum ideas and enriches the body of resources shared with children in K-12 settings for the purposes of developing imagination, empathy, and understanding of self and others. Featuring author portraits, comprehensive annotated bibliographies of contemporary Canadian children's books that depict characters with disabilities, and read-on bibliographies that provide connections with other books in the field, this unique text will be an invaluable resource for educators.

Author : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Acadians
ISBN : BL:A0021774918

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Evangeline: a Tale of Acadie by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Pdf

Author : N.E.S. Griffiths
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0773526994

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From Migrant to Acadian by N.E.S. Griffiths Pdf

Despite their position between warring French and British empires, European settlers in the Maritimes eventually developed from a migrant community into a distinctive Acadian society. From Migrant to Acadian is a comprehensive narrative history of how the Acadian community came into being. Acadian culture not only survived, despite attempts to extinguish it, but developed into a complex society with a unique identity and traditions that still exist in present day Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

Author : Pradip K. Chande
Publisher : Allied Publishers
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Automation
ISBN : 817023512X

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ICAUTO-95 by Pradip K. Chande Pdf

Author : Gerard J. Brault
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0874513596

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The French-Canadian Heritage in New England by Gerard J. Brault Pdf

"In this book, Gerard J. Brault offers an introduction to Franco- American culture, covering the group's history, ideology, language, and literature; architecture, art, folklore, and music; demography, education, politics, religion, and sociology. " Back cover of book.

Author : Gabrielle Roy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Fiction
ISBN : WISC:89108552621

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Garden in the Wind by Gabrielle Roy Pdf