AdamTheCultured

This is so sweet! A family reunion!!!

That is pretty cool though....fate brought you two together on this site....

travelpunk

WTF?!!! Man, how cool is that! This is an episode that belongs on Oprah!

No wonder you guys are similar

I'll drink to that

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TheCross

I was born in NZ, as were both my parents and their parents, but all of my great grandparents were pom's.

Nothing exciting about me, just a little white boy with a big beard.

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waterboy716

my father came to America at 25 from Greece...my mother's Swedish. (think i got jipped tho by not getting either her hair or eyes)

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Columbia

Royalty! Wheee! Well, kinda. On my mum's side, there was an advisor to Prince Nicholas of Scotland who is somehow related..aside from the fact that they share the same maiden name....wonder if I'll get a prize or something if I can prove it.

Columbia

Filling out scholarship forms today I asked my dad if I was French or French Canadian and he tells me French Canadian, but then he said I'm actually French Acadian..yeeeah I don't even know what Acadian is something about being driven out of the US after leaving someplace and something about Ireland and Scotland...meh. Nope no Landrys in my family but we got.....uhhh....Halls and Arsnaults! That's all I know on my pa's side...

kag

My mom is a Landry!
I'm pretty much 100% pure acadian :D I looked up my family tree on the internet and found out that my ancestors were all from Port Royal on both my Hébert grandpa's and grandma's side of my dad's side. Haven't finished looking up for my Landry tree though.
And I live in the Acadian Peninsula in New Brunswick

A bunch of Arseneault around here too, my uncle is one.

I'm an Hébert myself, but I have more Robichaud than anything else in my family tree.

Mocassin

Youhoooooyouuuuu!!!! How many cousins do I have in here?!

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voyd

Can someone tell me what French Acadian is vs French Canadian? Also something about one spells their names ending in eau vs eaux? What's the story and diference all you Frenchies?

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Mocassin

Ok Voyd...All people from the province of Québec are french canadians, and all the people that speak french and live in Canada are also French canadians...But in the province of New-Brunswick (and Nova-Scotia and PEI, and even in southern Québec), there are also french people that are called Acadians (because they lived in Acadia - A large area in eastern Canada), and they have a different accent and add a lot of english words to their vocabulary (from what I've heard) and are said to be very proud people...

Ok so the french were here before the english, and the english won the war, they wanted us to change our language and our religion. It did not happen, but they used a different approach with the Acadians: they all forced them to move to the USA and other places, Louisiana mostly (and became known as the Cajun there, a word derived from Acadians)...Some of them managed to hide when the deportation or Exil happened, some of them came back later.

Acadians...History

As for the ending eau vs. eaux...Well some words are exeption when it comes to make them plural, so instead of adding an 's', you add an 'x'...So all words ending with eau are eaux when plural, and also a few words ending with ou will become oux.

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kag

You are right, mostly :P
It's not all of us that have a lot of english in our vocabulary. It's mostly those who live near english towns. It was just a matter of time before english words were used in french sentences. As for us, those living in the Acadian Peninsula, we have the same kind of accent as those in Gaspesia, but only a little less pronounced. I don't talk with a weird accent as Kevin Parent, for example. I have to drive more than an hour to go to a place exclusively english, so we're still pure where I live :P

For example, I don't say "noir" but rather "nouaire"... and I don't say "avoir" but "aouaire". Weird huh hehehe.

I'd say the french acadians are those who were affected by the Great Deportation in 1755... and the french canadians are those who weren't. I mean we all come from France so it has to be that. Maybe I'm repeating myself, but about two weeks ago, the English Crown has acknowledged the Great Deportation, but they have yet to admit the effects caused to the Acadian people.

As for the last names, in the old days, not a lot of people knew how to read and write so the names were sometimes transformed over time. For example, there are Arseneau and Arseneault. My friend's father was born a McGrath, and both his parents died when he was real young. When he went to school, he told the teacher his last name was McGrath, but the teacher told him it wasn't McGrath but McGraw. I didn't knew better so he always wrote his last name as McGraw. Now all his childs and grandchilds are McGraw, yet his brothers are McGrath. hehe.

Columbia

I think there are around 8 ways to write Arsenault...probably why my gramma never bothered to dig into genealogy.
Reminds me kag, some distant relatives of mine have the same last name as my mum but it's spelt Clowdis and not Crowdis.
Ummm Cajun...is that the same Cajun as like you might go and have for dinner, Cajun chicken? What a strange question. I'm confuzzled