Founding peoples

[John Chardine]

This elegant monument is in my local town of Sackville and celebrates the founding peoples of this great place. The brown stone is from a local quarry and is famous for being used extensively in places like Boston.

Canon 1D mk IV, 17-40/4, 1/160s, f11, ISO 200

[Ilija Dukovski]

Very interesting, can you tell us more about the people,
who are the Planters and Acadians?

[John Chardine]

I'm not much of an historian Ilija!

Planters came from Europe to establish the colony. Acadians were original French planters (so the definition overlaps IMO) who later were expelled by the British from Maritime Canada (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island). Some Acadians who survived the journey made it to the New Orleans area and became "Cajuns"- the original "French Connection"! Eventually Acadians came back and reclaimed some of their property. New Brunswick is officially bilingual French-English and is a delightful admixture of French Acadian and English/Scots/Irish et al. cultures.

[Ilija Dukovski]

Very interesting, I didn't know about the original "French Connection"
nor that the original French-Canadians were called Acadians.
TFS

[Harshad Barve]

Excellent image and info John
TFS

[Tony Whitehead]

Lovely image, John. So many layers and textures quite apart from the story.

[Katherine Enns]

This is a lovely image, and the history is fascinating. I am the great great etc daughter of 1776 Loyalists so this has special meaning for me, and I would really like to see this in person. Beautiful photograph.

[John Chardine]

Thanks Kat. I'd love to show this to you sometime. Let me know if you are ever down east!

[Katherine Enns]

Will do. I keep wanting to do this and I will some day!