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Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 16:46:05 -0500
From: The Bernadettes
Subject: RE: Cajun

Some more Acadian facts: though most of the Acadians were expelled
from the Canadian Maritimes, a small colony still persisted on the west
coast of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. This part of Cape Breton,
located around the village of Cheticamp, is a very rugged, moutainous
area and was probably too difficult for the British to expend the energy
removing these Frenchman from the area, also they probably posed no real
threat to the remaining British colonists who were settling on the
island. Musically the French and Celtic (the Scots are the primary
British settlers on Cape Breton) cultures combined to form a rather
unique style of music. It has a strong fiddle based, Celtic feel but
with a bit of a French flavor, especially the style played around the
Cheticamp area. I vacation a lot on Cape Breton Island and have enjoyed
listening to quite a few great musicians on the island. Once heard a
great Celtic style harmonica player, whose name unfortunately, I
forgot. Made the harp sound just like a fiddle, real impressive stuff.
Would anybody know who this would be? Definitely somebody who should be
recorded, if not already.
There are also two other French islands in the Bay St. Lawrence
area, located between Cape Breton Island and Newfoundland, the Madeliene
and Miquelon Islands (sp??). The Madelienes are part of Quebec and the
Miquelons are still French territory, I think the only remaining French
territory in North America.

Don D.