All of the Acadians from the Saint John River who were in Louisiana as early as 1766 went there by way of Halifax. The Acadians who left Halifax for Louisiana did so in two basic groups. The first, under the leadership of the Broussard dit Beausoleil brothers, left late in 1764 and went first to the West Indies and then on to New Orleans, where they arrived in February 1765. Many, but certainly not all, of these people settled in the Attakapas district. Some others were brought back by the Spanish to settle on the Mississippi River, at Cabahannocer. A second group of Acadians left Halifax nearly a year after the first. They arrived in New Orleans at the end of 1765. Lucie LeBlanc Consentino Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home www.acadian-home.org <http://www.acadian-home.org/> Am-Can Gen Soc www.acgs.org <http://www.acgs.org/> CMA 2004 - www.cma2004.com Grand-Pré - http://www.grand-pre.com/ www.umoncton.ca/etudeacadiennes/centre/cea.html <http://www.umoncton.ca/etudeacadiennes> <http://www.grand-pre.com/>