2 definitions by elchiac_acajin
A town in south-eastern New Brunswick, Canada. Mostly populated by Acadians but also has a fair share of English and French Canadians, during the summer it's a popular tourist town, prior to it's touristic attraction, it was a poor Acadian town with the exception of the wealthy White English-Canadian families. Many Acadians settled in Shediac after their forced expulsion by the British Empire in 1755.
by elchiac_acajin October 14, 2020
Chiac (Wiaqqiejig, means ''Mixed'' in Míkmaq) is a modernized term for a people whom today resides mainly in the south-eastern coastal regions of New Brunswick , Canada. They are ethnically Acadians (of the region of Acadia) but the Chiac are descendants of the indigenous Algonquian people who intermixed with French settlers in the 16th, 17th and 18th Century. Today, the Chiac speak a regional dialect also called Chiac, which is derived from a mixture of indigenous Eastern Algonquin languages, Acadian French and some English.
When the British conquered Acadia in the early 1700's, they were oppressed and forcibly assimilated by the British, also known as whitewashed , after being exiled and many enslaved in 1755, they were forced on to coastal lands in south-east New Brunswick, to segregate the Chiac-Acadians from the White-British. Their history was essentially erased and their new history was rewritten by the British and later the French, with their true culture erased and forgotten, they took the French-Canadian and Gaelic cultures around them as their own, today they're only identified as Acadians and not rightfully known as indigenous Acadians or Acadian Metis (Mestizo-Acadians).
When the British conquered Acadia in the early 1700's, they were oppressed and forcibly assimilated by the British, also known as whitewashed , after being exiled and many enslaved in 1755, they were forced on to coastal lands in south-east New Brunswick, to segregate the Chiac-Acadians from the White-British. Their history was essentially erased and their new history was rewritten by the British and later the French, with their true culture erased and forgotten, they took the French-Canadian and Gaelic cultures around them as their own, today they're only identified as Acadians and not rightfully known as indigenous Acadians or Acadian Metis (Mestizo-Acadians).
Chiac-Acadien: I'm not European, I'm not French, I'm not French-Canadian and I'm not simply Acadian, I'm a Chiac from l'Acadie.
by elchiac_acajin October 19, 2020