Since the return of the Acadians in exile to Nova Scotia in the 1760s, there are still four Acadian communities where the French language is widely used. They are found in the southwestern part of the province, along St. Mary’s Bay (Municipality of Clare) and in the Par-en-Bas area (Municipality of Argyle), and in Cape Breton, in the Chéticamp area and Isle Madame. The other Acadian communities live dispersed in predominantly English-speaking environments where the use of French is a minority or even marginal.

Little known outside their province, these bilingual communities, especially the four main ones targeted above, struggle on a daily basis to preserve their Acadian and Francophone culture. It is to make their turbulent history and their astonishing cultural and economic vitality better known to a wide audience that this website was designed for the French national association France-Canada….