Acadia

province of Canada

colony of New France in northeastern North America

peninsula in Northeastern Canada, in New Brunswick

Brayons (; ), also called Madawaskayens, are a Francophone people inhabiting the area in and around Madawaska County, New Brunswick, Canada, and some parts of northern Maine.

thumb|An immigrant couple living in Massachusetts, [[United States, speaking a version of Chiac.]] Chiac (or Chiak, Chi’aq) is a patois of Acadian French spoken mostly in southeastern New Brunswick, Canada. Chiac is frequently characterized and distinguished from other forms of Acadian French by its borrowings from English and is thus often mistakenly considered a form of Franglais.

municipal district in Nova Scotia, Canada

river in Canada

National flag of Acadia

thumb|upright=1.35|Louisbourg on Ïle Royale in 1750

Canadian architect (1877-1950)

square in Paris, France

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.