Acadian Foundations

Maritime and Canadian heritage account

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Acadia was born in 1605: settled first by the French, and then the British. Over tumultuous decades, it was built into a powerhouse of trade and industry - at one time the wealthiest of the British colonies.

Acadia later experienced decline, but we regard it as "loser talk" to dwell on past grievances. We aim to forge a better way forward by embracing our heritage as well as a positive vision for our future.

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@fangybf Yes, as long as you havent re-read it in a while, like > a year.

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Both Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey touch on this in different ways. Both of them carry sub-themes of "the banality of evil", or, the banality of bored, proud, resentful person with power.

[𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐢 @maiiunreveled]

when you enter the corporate world and realize school bullying was nothing compared to dealing with unhappy, insecure, and unkind adults in their 30s and 40s who got job titles, positions of authority, and the power to make your everyday work life miserable.

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@capstellium And yet you survived, Acadians are a powerful race!

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@Monarchist_Can 🙏

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Dissolving the Confederation is a recipe for getting eaten piecemeal by the rest of the world, same as it was in 1867.

But the middle part of this is true: aggrieved Alberta separatoids never want to acknowledge the large amount of treasure and sweat spent by EASTERN Canada building Alberta in the first place.

[Giant MacAskill @Scotianpotion13]

@Putter1583 Confederation should have never happened in the first place but Canada did send Alberta a lot of $ and farm workers up until the oil boom. I think the whole country needs to separate and split up military assets. Ottawa weighs everyone down.

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@saguaro_ghost It's not still that way?

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There are people who find seagulls annoying instead of a spiritually-necessary part of a wholesome environment? Well, I never!

[Mary @Maryzp9y]

I know I was meant to live near the beach because I don’t find seagulls annoying at all they’re my people

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In addition to this (which we agree, homeowners should be doing - AI tools make it easy to create a sequentially-blooming garden);

It's always fascinating to see how that gardening zone belt bends from really quite far down the US, upwards to the east coast of Canada, making Nova Scotia one of the warmest parts of the country. God bless that Gulf Stream!

[Allie ✞ @allie__voss]

GUYS it is time

Bulbs are the easiest freaking way to make your yard look incredible in the spring and you need to start planting now/soon based on where you live

If you want the earliest possible blooms after winter, plant daffodils

Follow it up with a TON of tulips, you will never regret planting more pair with crocuses, muscari and hyacinths

Future you will thank you!

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@SketchesbyBoze @wren_and_paper If Mansfield Park isn't at the top the list is bogus

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@goodreads Mansfield Park

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@ThebookishC It's spiritually real.

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@fletcheffect174 I see the ever-deteriorating economy, and decreasing geographic mobility, playing a role here, but I don't like to go into this on here too much because not everyone agrees with it and so it becomes kind of a distraction from celebrating our heritage.

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Well, I read this as: not that the actual historic system of Highland clans should be restored, which is kind of LARP-y for a few reasons, one of them being that most people even in Nova Scotia are not "pure" Highland descendants anymore.

Rather, my takeaway was that something LIKE the old clan system should be re-developed, and probably will be, as the economic and security structures continue to erode. It will be based less on tartans and superficial pageantry and more on actual patronage relationships.

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@AcadiaFoundatio Bringing back the clan system would be great, but how many young Celtic descendants even remember their colours? My great grandfather lived to be 107 and without him I doubt anyone would’ve told me about our history

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@fletcheffect174 No, you're right, they wouldn't be. I foresee these things evolving very gradually over decades and eventually they will be more coherent.

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@demographicsss Nice!

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Everyone, Canadian or not, should strongly consider visiting l'Anse-aux-Meadows.

Strictly speaking, there's not a ton "there": not like there would be if it was closer to, well, anything. Don't expect a huge amount of unearthed ruins. But the replica longhouses are cool, and the scenery in remote Newfoundland is awe-inspiring, otherworldly.

[WASP Zoomer @WASPZoomer]

We should have Leif Erikson day this Friday

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@WASPZoomer Don't forget that the British originally wanted Maine to be New Ireland, or "Nova Hibernia" one supposes!

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@AngloChud2001 Thank you, sir. o7

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@itchy_dawggg @TheBlackHorse65 Honestly I see parallels to Jordan Peterson in that both are gifted individuals clearly wrestling with demons.