This is because Acadian cultural heritage exists virtually everywhere here, from shore to shore to shore. We truly are île Acadie – the Acadian Island. The French regime, from which Acadie evolved, began in 1720 in the most heavily-settled places such as Havre Saint-Pierre, Malpec, Trois-Rivières, and at Port-la-Joye, once the capital of then-Île Saint-Jean, …