Acadia was a colony of New France in northeastern North America which included parts of what are now the Maritime provinces, the Gaspé Peninsula and Maine to the Kennebec River.
Daniel Lionel Hanington was a New Brunswick, Canada politician and jurist.
John James Fraser was a New Brunswick (Canada) lawyer, judge, and politician.
Memramcook, sometimes also spelled Memramcouke or Memramkouke, is a village in Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada. Located in south-eastern New Brunswick, the community is predominantly people of Acadian descent who speak the Chiac derivative of the French language. An agricultural village, it has a strong local patrimony, key to the history of the region. It was home to Mi'kmaqs for many years and was the arrival site of Acadians in 1700. A large part of these Acadians were deported in 1755, but the village itself survived.
Dorchester is a community in Westmorland County, New Brunswick, Canada. The community became part of the new town of Tantramar in the 2023 New Brunswick local governance reform. Originally incorporated as a town in 1911, it was converted to a village in 1966. By 1825 it had been named for Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, an 18th-century Governor-General of the old Province of Quebec, but prior to that was called Botsford.
Pascal Poirier was a Canadian author, lawyer, and the all-time longest-serving Senator.
The University of St. Joseph's College was the leading Acadian cultural institution, an Acadian Catholic university in Memramcook, New Brunswick that closed in 1966, when it was forced to be amalgamated with two other Catholic Acadian colleges to form the secular Université de Moncton. The process of amalgamation excluded a full reflection of the founding Catholic Culture of the Acadian people, fostering a colonizing secularization of Acadian life. The Collège Saint-Joseph, the Université Sacré-Cœur in Bathurst, and the Université Saint-Louis d'Edmundston suspend their respective charters and assume the status of affiliated colleges in the secular Université de Moncton, named after the city of Moncton, which in turn was named after General Robert Monckton the British General who directed the Acadian deportation.
Joseph-Octave Arsenault was a Canadian politician who was the first Acadian from Prince Edward Island to be named to the Senate of Canada.
Denis Landry is the Mayor of Hautes-Terre and a former MLA and Leader of the Opposition in the province of New Brunswick, Canada. Landry was a Cabinet Minister in the governments of Shawn Graham and Brian Gallant.
Stanislaus Francis Perry was a Canadian farmer and politician in Prince Edward Island.
William Crane was a merchant, judge and long-term elected provincial legislator in New Brunswick, Canada, serving from 1824–1842.He also was a member of the Legislative Council of New Brunswick from 1843–1850.
Sir Pierre-Amand Landry, was an Acadian lawyer, judge and political figure in New Brunswick. He represented Westmorland County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1870 to 1874 and from 1878 to 1883. He represented Kent in the House of Commons of Canada from 1883 to 1890 as a Conservative member.
Ambroise D. Richard was a lawyer and political figure of Acadian descent in New Brunswick, Canada. He represented Westmorland County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1895 to 1899 as a Conservative member.
David-Vital Landry was a medical doctor, farmer and political figure of Acadian descent in New Brunswick, Canada. He represented Kent County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1908 to 1917 as a Conservative member.
Antoine Joseph Léger was a lawyer, author and political figure of Acadian descent in New Brunswick. He represented Westmorland County in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick from 1925 to 1935 as a Conservative member and then represented the division of L'Acadie in the Senate of Canada from 1935 to 1950.
Édouard H. Léger was a physician and political figure in New Brunswick, Canada. He represented Kent in the House of Commons of Canada from 1890 to 1892 as a Conservative member.
Placide Gaudet was a Canadian historian, educator, genealogist and journalist. He signed his name as Placide P. Gaudet. Gaudet is noted for his research into the history and genealogy of the Acadian people and played an important role in the preservation of their history.
Émilie Leblanc was a Canadian educator and Acadian activist.
Marcel-François Richard was a Roman Catholic priest and a Canadian educator. He played an important part in the development of the Acadian people.
The Acadian Men of Letters are a group of five Acadian literary figures who are noted for their work in Acadian history, literature, language, and culture. They were active from the 1880s to the 1930s and made up of Pascal Poirier, Placide Gaudet, John Clarence Webster, Israël Landry, and Ferdinand Robidoux. They were declared Persons of National Historic Significance in Canada in 1955 and have a plaque dedicated to them in Shediac, New Brunswick.
