This segment of the website introduces the reader to a variety of recommended reading material, all in reference to the French Acadian people.

CATHERINE'S CADEAU

When Monique LeBlanc disappears from Nova Scotia, her cousin Michelle is panic-stricken. Their summer vacation has taken an ominous turn, and a search begins. At the site of Monique's disappearance in Grand-Pré Historic Park, police find a picture of her mother, Catherine, who passed away years ago, near Evangeline's statue. Michelle knows that Monique is visiting the park to honor the dream she shared with her mother of visiting their Canadian homeland. What she doesn't know is that Monique has gone back in time to her ancestors' exile, actually living through the horrific deportation of thousands of Acadians to Louisiana in 1755.

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Ever since their expulsion from their homeland around the Bay of Fundy in 1755, the Acadians have worked hard to keep a sense of their identity as a people, no matter where they lived in New Brunswick, Louisiana, Nova Scotia or Texas. Clive Doucet has wrestled with the question of his Acadian identity since childhood, when he spent unforgettable summers with his paternal grandparents in an Acadian village in Nova Scotia.

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LOST AND FOUND IN ACADIE

This volume contains many threads of history, woven together to create a complex tapestry depicting the history of Acadia and the people that belong to it. Clive Doucet delivers a personal story, and the stories of many others, as he passes through the hundreds of years of Acadian history. The unique culture of Acadia if fully fleshed and defined through the eyes of the young boy we became acquainted with in My Grandfather's Cape Breton, and through the eyes of the man that this boy has become. Within this book, we rove from the initial settling of Acadia, on through the friendship developed with the Mi'kmaq, into the Civil War that helped to tear Acadia apart, to the horrors of the deportation and the subsequent attempts to rebuild and relocate history, family, and truth admidst a shattered people.

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A souvenir book to mark the third worldwide gathering of the Acadian people in 2004.