Bonjour mon amie,
Darren, you are making my mouth water with all that talk about seafood. I was raised on all that, except crawdads.
I sure would love to taste some of your cookin. I can't cook worth a darn, but always wanted to be able to make a nice meal.
I believe that I have seen every cooking show that has been on t.v. I have a great old book by Jeanette Benoit. She was popular
here in the early sixties. There was a cook that I liked out of Louisiana, name was Justin Austin if I remember correctly.
He wore big braces for his pants. He sure had that accent. He would say Honions instead on onions. Newfies do the same thing,
add a H were there isn't one and drop it if it's supposed to be spoken out loud.
As far as the recorded history of this part of the continent, and the eastern part of the U.S., the historians don't make finding
the facts on some of these terrible things that were done easy to be discovered.
Very briefly, what is now known as Ontario and Quebec was in the early 1700s, known as New France. Today there are two small
islands not too far off the east coast that are still the sovereign territory of France.
France lost the war to the British on the Plains of Abraham just outside of Quebec City. The British divided the territory into the two provinces that we now know. Anyone who would not swear allegiance to the Crown were exiled. They were allowed to take only what they could carry.They were put on ships and a lot were lost at sea.
You also have the United Empire Loyalists who came north out of the 13 Colonies.
Acadians who were born here, such as ;
Nova Scotia / Cape Britain, New Brunswick, and the Gaspe Peninsula, were scattered all along the east coast down into Florida and of course to Louisiana. A good number of them went back to France, probably the ones who could afford the passage.
This all started before the Seven Year War in Europe, the Quebec Act, the Church with it's forced tithes and other things,the Revolutionary War, and the Spanish.
I expect that some folks in Louisiana don't realize that their ancestors were born here. Of course a lot did come from France, but not all.
Perhaps someone has written a paper on the exile of the French people from here.
I had a buddy back in the late sixties. His name is Joe Auger (ausiea).
Good to meet you Darren,
Bluzman
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