We began our tour with a visit to the campus of Moncton University. We were fortunate to have Stephen White give us a one-hour tour of the Centre d’Etudes Acadiennes; we then visited the Acadian Museum on campus.
After lunch, we toured Bore Park and saw the Odyssey Monument along the Petitcodiac River. We visited Village-des-Leblanc and took pictures of the descendants of Joseph-André LeBlanc and Marie Doiron in front of the monument located on their former lands. The highlight of the day was a 90-minute talk by Stephen White! (How fortunate were we?!)
Centre d’Etudes Acadiennes
Stepehn White giving tour of Centre
The LeBlanc powder horn and other artifacts
The Deportation of the Acadiens-Can you feel the despair?
An Acadian home
The Petitcodiac River (aka the Chocolate River)
The Odyssey Monument
Resistance panel
Lucie LeBlanc Consentino at Village-des-LeBlanc
Lucie LeBlanc Consentino, Stephen White, and I before Stephen’s talk
Stephen White presenting a 90-minute talk to an audience of cousins