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- Title
Voices of Kouchibouguac.
- Authors
Rudin, Ronald
- Abstract
The author describes his oral history project "Kouchibouguac in History and Memory." The project focuses on the 1969 agreement between the Canadian government and the Canadian province of New Brunswick to create a national park on the eastern shore of New Brunswick, which necessitated the removal of sitting residents from the land. The author discusses his interviews with residents who left the land (called "expropriés" in French) and those who continue to resist, most notable a resident named Jackie Vautour, who remains as a land squatter within the park. The author points out that most of the residents forced to leave were Acadians and discusses the search for cultural identity among Acadians in the midst of leaving the land.
- Subjects
KOUCHIBOUGUAC National Park (N.B.); CANADA; ORAL history; ACADIANS; EMINENT domain; CULTURAL identity; SQUATTERS; NATIONAL parks &; reserves; HISTORY of New Brunswick, Canada
- Publication
Oral History Forum, 2010, Vol 30, p1
- ISSN
1482-5872
- Publication type
Article