List of Acadians

This is a list of members of the Acadian people, and people of Acadian origins.

This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

Actors

Law and politics

Military veterans

Musicians

Sports

Visual artists

  • Jennifer Bélanger - artist
  • Rémi Belliveau - artist
  • Jean-Denis Boudreau - artist
  • Marjolaine Bourgeois - artist
  • Angèle Cormier - artist
  • Mario Doucette - painter
  • André Jacques LeBlanc - artist
  • Mathieu Léger - artist
  • Annie France Noël - artist
  • Anne-Marie Sirois - artist

Writers

Media

  • Phil Comeau - film and television director; 55 film awards, Order of Canada, Order of New Brunswick
  • Lyse Doucet - news correspondent and presenter, BBC World
  • Dale Winslow - creator of educational YouTube channel Think Fact

Pre-deportation

  • David Basset, trader and privateer
  • Michel Boudrot (Boudreau, Boudreaux) - Judge and Lieutenant General, Lieutenant-général et juge en chef de Port-Royal, Governor General, laboureur, lieutenand general civil et criminel e Port Royal., Lieutenant général en Acadie, Lt. General of Port Royal
  • Joseph Broussard (Beausoleil)
  • Noel Doiron - leader of the Acadians; died in the single greatest tragedy of the Expulsion, the sinking of the Duke William
  • Daniel LeBlanc - immigrant and progenitor of the LeBlanc family, the largest Acadian family at the time of the deportation
  • Pierre LeBlanc - early settler of Pointe-de-l'Église, Nova Scotia
  • René LeBlanc - notary, the only Acadian named in Longfellow's Poem "Évangeline - A Tale of Acadie"
  • Philippe Mius d’Entremont - Lieutenant-major under Charles de LaTour, founder of Pubnico, and later King's Attorney in Acadia
  • Pierre II Surette - Acadian resistance leader and co-founder of Ste. Anne du Ruisseau, Nova Scotia

See also

References

  1. ↑ http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/bourg_alexandre_3E.html
  2. ↑ List of Veterans named by Governor of Boston, p. 155
  3. ↑ https://archive.org/stream/documentsrelativ10brod#page/168/mode/1up
  4. ↑ https://archive.org/stream/documentsrelativ10brod#page/171/mode/1up
  5. ↑ https://archive.org/stream/documentsrelativ10brod#page/173/mode/1up
  6. 1 2 Barnes, p. 112, note 17
  7. ↑ http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/leblanc_joseph_3E.html
  8. ↑ p. 46
  9. ↑ p. 46 - note Villebon has Melanson's first initial as "M" when it was "P"
  10. ↑ Conquest of Acadia, p. 58
  11. ↑ http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/thibodeau_simon_5E.html
  12. ↑ Northern Armageddon: The Battle of the Plains of Abraham By D. Peter MacLeod
  13. ↑ http://www.cbc.ca/history/EPCONTENTSE1EP4CH8PA4LE.html
  14. ↑ "Biography – BUOTE, GILBERT – Volume XIII (1901-1910) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". Retrieved 2017-05-09.
  15. ↑ Ross, Sally (1998). "Landry, Valentin". In Cook, Ramsay; Hamelin, Jean. Dictionary of Canadian Biography. XIV (1911–1920) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
  16. ↑ "Open letter - Marichette". McCord Museum.
  17. ↑ "Festival des cultures francophones" (PDF). Dalhousie University.
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