Stone Carving Of A Man With A Pipe

[mau1]

Now here's something you don't see every day. While perusing pictures of my hometown I ran across this stone carving of a mans face. It took me a second to realize that he's smoking a pipe, upside down, a practice performed while smoking in the rain. The stone carving and many others are found on Canada's Parliament buildings. The only description of this carving that I could find was that it depicted an Acadian man. The Acadians came from France, and settled in Nova Scotia, Canada beginning in the early 1600's. Their peaceful existence was uprooted in 1755 when over 10,000 Acadians were ripped from their homeland to ensure British rule in North America. They lost everything with no compensation. By the time the deportations ended in 1778, over 10,000 people had been forced out. Many of them, over 4,000, ended up in the Spanish colony of Louisiana where they created the Cajun culture. A little bit of history for your Thursday morning.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

That's a cool looking dinosaur on that lower picture too. Or, whatever it is. Interesting style.

 

[bullet08]

Thank God for Brits! Without them, we might have missed out on one of the best cuisine in America!

 

[anotherbob]

Thank God for Brits! Without them, we might have missed out on one of the best cuisine in America!

they've been trying to protect the world from fun and joviality for a very long time. Monty Python was a terribly failed attempt at this. No one expected that stuff to be funny especially the bits about the Spanish Inquisition. I mean really clearly that wasn't intended to be funny.

 

[bullet08]

they've been trying to protect the world from fun and joviality for a very long time. Monty Python was a terribly failed attempt at this. No one expected that stuff to be funny especially the bits about the Spanish Inquisition. I mean really clearly that wasn't intended to be funny.

Definitely. American version of Spanish Inquisition was much funnier. "History of The World, Part I".

 

[anotherbob]

Definitely. American version of Spanish Inquisition was much funnier. "History of The World, Part I".

haven't seen that in so long I can't say if it's funnier then anything at all. Except hamsters hamsters are just funny.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Very interesting!

Where did the 10,000 uprooted end up? (or is it 6,000., with 4k in Louisiana?)

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Very interesting!

Where did the 10,000 uprooted end up? (or is it 6,000., with 4k in Louisiana?)

My understanding is that some just assimilated into American colonial life. Massachusetts and Maine had quite a few communities as well. But, in Louisiana they were able to keep most of their culture in tact. Mobile Alabama over into the panhandle of Florida also have some strong Acadian cultures that have survived. Montgomery, Alabama also has a French speaking culture. Its funny, when someone gets elected to the State Gov here, and they move to Montgomery, they develop that unique way of speaking quickly. It doesn't take them but one term and their words all sound slurred and heavy tongued. I always thought it was from drinking, ha ha. But someone pointed out to me that there is just a strange accent in general there.

 

[mau1]

The British first deported Acadians to the Thirteen Colonies, and after 1758, transported additional Acadians to Britain and France. In all, of the 14,100 Acadians in the region, approximately 11,500 Acadians were deported. During the second wave, they were deported to Britain and France, and from there a significant number migrated to Spanish Louisiana, where "Acadians" eventually became "Cajuns".
Thousands of Acadians died in the expulsions, mainly from diseases and drowning when ships were lost.

American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow memorialized the expulsion in the popular poem, Evangeline, about the plight of a fictional character, which spread awareness of the expulsion.

 

[mau1]

Oh, the plight of the Acadians was also memorialized by the music group, "The Band" in the song entitled "Acadian Driftwood". Check it out, a great song (and band).

 

[jpmcwjr]

Thank you. But I'd like to understand this better, put some questions in blue below.

The British first deported Acadians to the Thirteen Colonies,
from where?
and after 1758, transported additional Acadians to Britain and France.
from where?

In all, of the 14,100 Acadians in the region, Which region?
approximately 11,500 Acadians were deported. To where?

During the second wave, they were deported to Britain and France, and from there a significant number migrated to Spanish Louisiana, Deported from the Colonies and then sailed back to the Colonies and migrated to LA and MS?
where "Acadians" eventually became "Cajuns".
Thousands of Acadians died in the expulsions, mainly from diseases and drowning when ships were lost.

American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow memorialized the expulsion in the popular poem, Evangeline, about the plight of a fictional character, which spread awareness of the expulsion.

 

[mau1]

Rather than answer you questions myself, click on the link I provided for the youtube song. They depict the deportation in pictures and then toward the end of the song they have maps depicting the rounded numbers of people deported, the location from where they were deported, and the states where they were deported to. There was a lot of movement. I haven't looked at it all yet but will take a closer look at the maps tomorrow.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Whoa! That's complex!

 

[mikethompson]

Years ago my wife and I did a maritime holiday in New Brunswick and were exposed to a small fraction of Acadian culture. There's actually a scenic highway along the coast called the Acadian Coastal Drive.

 

[mau1]

My understanding is that some just assimilated into American colonial life. Massachusetts and Maine had quite a few communities as well. But, in Louisiana they were able to keep most of their culture in tact. Mobile Alabama over into the panhandle of Florida also have some strong Acadian cultures that have survived. Montgomery, Alabama also has a French speaking culture. Its funny, when someone gets elected to the State Gov here, and they move to Montgomery, they develop that unique way of speaking quickly. It doesn't take them but one term and their words all sound slurred and heavy tongued. I always thought it was from drinking, ha ha. But someone pointed out to me that there is just a strange accent in general there.

Cosmic, Old Mobile Alabama is where my great grandfather many times removed, showed up at in 1705. That was 50 years before the Acadians were forced out of the east coast of Canada.

He was one of a company of 26 men who established a tannery at the junction of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers in 1702. Decimated by an epidemic at the tannery, the surviving voyageurs canoed down the Mississippi arriving at Fort Louis de la Louisiane in Mobile on 28 Jan 1705. History is fascinating.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

the surviving voyageurs canoed down the Mississippi arriving at Fort Louis de la Louisiane in Mobile

The trip from the Mississippi over to Mobile would be the most interesting part of that trip, IMO. Mobile is an interesting part of US history. It has belonged to so many different countries over the years. Up until WW1, secret slavery in Alabama was a problem, with many slaves brought in and left to die in the swamp, when the feds were onto them.

 

[mau1]

I've never heard of this secret slavery but I can well imagine it happening. It's like something out of a horror movie.
My ancestors trip started in Montreal, down the St. Lawrence to the Ottawa river, thru various rivers to Lake Huron, across to Lake Michigan, down to Green Bay, the Fox river to the Mississippi, and then down to the junction of the Mississippi and Ohio (Wabash) rivers. All this from May 1702 to late November 1702.

 

[anotherbob]

I've never heard of this secret slavery but I can well imagine it happening. It's like something out of a horror movie.
My ancestors trip started in Montreal, down the St. Lawrence to the Ottawa river, thru various rivers to Lake Huron, across to Lake Michigan, down to Green Bay, the Fox river to the Mississippi, and then down to the junction of the Mississippi and Ohio (Wabash) rivers. All this from May 1702 to late November 1702.

still happening in parts of this country and the rest of the world. Really sad and if you want to feel somewhat depressed go research modern day slavery.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

The only thing that changed around here was the inclusion of money.. mostly just a technicality IMO, at least for a long time.

I worked In residential construction.. there are some crews that really blur the lines. when you rent from the guy, work for the guy, and borrow from your paycheck for everything you need.. At the end of the week a lot of guys don't get paid, they just refinance their loan with the boss.

 

[The Clay King]

Now here's something you don't see every day. While perusing pictures of my hometown I ran across this stone carving of a mans face. It took me a second to realize that he's smoking a pipe, upside down, a practice performed while smoking in the rain. The stone carving and many others are found on Canada's Parliament buildings. The only description of this carving that I could find was that it depicted an Acadian man. The Acadians came from France, and settled in Nova Scotia, Canada beginning in the early 1600's. Their peaceful existence was uprooted in 1755 when over 10,000 Acadians were ripped from their homeland to ensure British rule in North America. They lost everything with no compensation. By the time the deportations ended in 1778, over 10,000 people had been forced out. Many of them, over 4,000, ended up in the Spanish colony of Louisiana where they created the Cajun culture. A little bit of history for your Thursday morning.


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I like these stone carvings of the medieval style Fleur de lys and the man with the clay pipe.
I'll have to try this with my clay in bad weather but the tobacco might drop out!