The New Acadia Project

A grassroots initiative involving multidisciplinary archaeological, historical, and ethnographic research to find and investigate the 1765 settlement of New Acadia.

Monday, May 12, 2014

Op Ed April 14, 2014

Acadian history should be unearthed before it is too late to find it (The Advertiser, April 14, 2014)

Posted by Mark Rees at 8:12 AM

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