Arichat is the main town on Isle Madam, an island off the coast of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. It was settled by Acadians before the deportations. Most of these settlers left the island after the fall of the French fort at Louisbourg in 1758, although some returned from exile by the end of the 1700s.
Now known as Church Point and home to Universite de Ste-Anne, this village was founded in 1772 by Acadian families arriving from Boston. It became a major center of Acadian culture due to the actions of the Eudist Fathers, a religious order that educated local Acadians.
This town in New Brunswick, near the Maine border, was the early Acadian capital. It was abandoned in the late 1600s but resettled in the 1700s by Acadian refugees fleeing the deportations in Nova Scotia.
Settled in 1785, this settlement was one of the later post-deportation Acadian villages in New Brunswick. It later became home to many Irish and Scottish immigrants.
This coastal settlement includes four smaller villages: Sainte-Anne-du-Ruisseau, Wedgeport and Tusket. Settlement began in the mid 1600s and this area was the last to be emptied by the English deportations. Some residents returned and resettled quite soon after the deportations ended.
Now a thriving centre of Acadian culture on Cape Breton Island, Cheticamp was not founded until well after the Acadians were deported from central Nova Scotia. The first settlers arrived in 1785 and the area was well-established as an Acadian community by 1812. Across the island from Cheticamp, Louisbourg was the French fort that held Cape Breton Island until eventually falling to the British. It has now been rebuilt into a major national historic site.
This was a small woodland settlement of nine families that existed to the east of the mouth of Halifax harbor, which was called Chebucto in the 1700s. The village itself no longer stands, but Acadian family names are still found in the area.
A village in northern New Brunswick that was settled in 1767 after the deportations, Cocagne had been a place of temporary shelter for Acadians during the worst of the deportations. It was later settled by families who had passed that way.
This village in the Memramcook region of Nova Scotia was first settled by the Gautreau family in the 1760s, later being named for them. It is actually several smaller settlements that were created by the expanding families and their children.
This region near Edmundston was settled by Acadians from Fredericton, which was then called Sainte-Anne-des-Pays-Bas. The first land grants were offered to Acadian families along the St. John River in this area in 1790.
This village of 5000, located near Moncton, is known as the "Birthplace of the New Acadia." It was the center of Acadian culture after the expulsion from Nova Scotia, although it was first settled in the late 1600s.
The capital of Old Acadia in central Nova Scotia, this town passed into British control in the early 1700s and became the British capital until it moved to Halifax. Other than the British garrison here, the British maintained little presence in the region until the Acadians were driven out and replaced by British planters.
