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Telling Their Own Stories to Themselves
1. Telling Their Own Stories to
Themselves
Nova Scotia Acadian Commemorative Celebrations in
the 20th Century
Caroline-Isabelle Caron
Queen’s University
Sunday, March 22, 2009
3. Compensating
for discrimination
Sunday, March 22, 2009
4. Compensating
for marginalization
Sunday, March 22, 2009
5. Compensating
for the horrors of the past
Sunday, March 22, 2009
6. Fonds Aline G. d’Entremont, 300th Anniversary Historical Pageant, 1951, Musée acadien et Archives, Pubnico
Acadian Bicentenial, Religious and Historical Pagents, Col. IV, Série D #222, #300, Centre Acadien, Université Sainte-Anne
Sunday, March 22, 2009
18. Coll. IV, Série D #244, Centre Acadien, Université Sainte-Anne
Procession, 75th Anniversary, Saint-Joseph-du-Moine,1954, Coll. Photos #3, Société Saint-Pierre, Chéticamp
Sunday, March 22, 2009
1604; Most immigration (NS) btw 1632-1669; Deportation, 1755-63 (10000-18000); Return to Maritimes; c1950: NS 10%, PEI 4%, NB 37%; today: 5%, 4%, 35%
Clare, Argyle, Chéticamp, Isle Madame, Pomquet
Still live and work in French (acadjonne)
Setting the record straight
Rhetoric of progress and Providence
Self-promotion and comminuty consolidation
Triple minority in NS: compare to general population, in overall Acadia, in Francophonie in Canada
Reconciling with Traumatic history/dealing with the past/coming to terms with the past
The past was good, not bad
Golden Age (pre-1755)
Representing local past and local victories, foundings and enterprise
Representing the past how WE think it should be
We still exist
We will continue to exist
We have won as often as we have lost
Our nation/people endures
Small communities (a few thousand residents each) organize events
Events that are representational and performative
Where several hundreds are involved in organisation and performance
Nearly all others are in audience
Participants are Us
Participants anre family, friends, neighbours. Named and known. Near.
Together
We are modern, despite what is said of us. We progress together.
We survive. We will survive. We have a history to be proud of.
Faith in both senses of the word
Faith in ourselves, we exist still, despite the past, discrimination and marginalisation
Faith in Providence, with Its protection, as Providence wills.
Mix of National and Religious symbols as iconic elements of community performances.
Performing commemoration. Dressing the part, dressing like the past.
Costume as visual icon
Hollywood movies, 1919, 1929; extremely popular-> Dolorès del Rio costume
1930 pilgrimage
Establishing the Acadian icon with the costume
Quickly adopted by all Acadian women in the Maritimes
Harney: 1955, Clare, knows movie costume is not authentic
Research to propose traditional costumes for Clare parade
‘Traditional’ from regions of France where Acadian ancestors came from
One costume per Clare village.
Harney costumes rejected be population
Rejected because not ‘real’
Rejected because Harney not part of community
Evangeline costume for women; Gabriel costume for men
Costume as icon
Costume represents collectivity.In Clare and everywhere in Acadia
By choosing Evangeline and Gabriel costumes, Acadians become the icon which, at a glance...
...indicates, represents and encapsulates all of Acadia...
...its whole history and mythos...
...They are the founding couple of the Acadian imaginary
Adam and Eve of the Acadian mythos (Kasulo Ohta)