Tossed to the wind like seeds in 1755, the Acadians took root in many places, but their homeland is Acadie. In 1864, Father Camille Lefebvre founded Saint Joseph’s College in Memramcook, the first French-language, degree-granting institution in Atlantic Canada. Commemorating a past filled with adversity, the building that honours the memory of Father Lefebvre is a place where the dynamic culture of the Acadian people finds expression. Learn about their inspiring journey in this place that symbolizes the Acadian Renaissance.
[Lane MacIntosh for Passport to Your Parks Canada Travel Experience, Parks Canada, 2007. Image: By evoluc (Monument LeFebvre Memramcook) CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0), via Wikimedia Commons]
Monument-Lefebvre National Historic site, Memramcook
