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By Robineau, Anne
Acadie Urbaine: A New Virtual Web Space for Acadian Heritage
The website Acadie Urbaine is a new virtual space for contemporary Acadian culture. Not only is it a forum for ideas and creativity, it also has become the symbolic cultural anchor of young artists and intellectuals in modern Acadia who are ever open to the world. This innovative contribution to Acadian cultural heritage is evidence of the vitality of the rising generation, which is progressively liberating itself from a history marked by the Deportation and their predecessor's nationalist tendencies. As a tool that transcends borders, this website is also representative of a new kind relation...
The English version of the Encyclopedia of French Cultural Heritage in North America is online since December 15th, 2009. It features an ever growing number of articles, documents and resources on the heritage of French-speaking North America.
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