Acadian Village of Lafayette Louisiana

We had two attractions to visit just outside Lafayette Louisiana, so today we packed up and hauled the trailer from New Orleans to the KOC campground in New Iberia.

First up was the Acadian Village. Sheila and I visited it this afternoon after getting set up at the campground. We found this incredibly fascinating because this was where the New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Acadians resettled after England launched the Great Expulsion of the 1700s in Atlantic Canada! They didn't resettle here immediately but rather, several decades after leaving New Brunswick. It was a challenging and diverse route from New Brunswick to Louisiana for these French colonists. Initially the British shipped them back to France in hastily built boats. But they were practically shunned by their fellow countrymen. Eventually coming back to North America to colonize the Spanish controlled Louisiana.

It was interesting to see the differences in the architecture and construction techniques between the New Brunswick Acadian Village and the Louisiana Acadian Village.