Acadia/the Origin of the Name and Its Geographical and Historical Utilization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14701559 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan Rayburn (Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographical Names) |
| Year | 1973 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 26-43 |
| Publication date | 1973-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0317-7173 • E-ISSN: 1911-9925 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/9616-83r9-8772-1g2j |
| OpenAlex | W2057010643 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Acadia is a name that has been used for nearly 400 years in the area of the Maritime Provinces. There is strong evidence that it derives from Archadia (Arcadia), given by Giovanni da Verrazzano in 1524 when he sighted an ideal landscape described in classical literature. Cartographers applied it to a region south of New France. In the early 1600s Sieur de Monts found it to be a useful designation for a new colonization scheme between New France and the Spanish possessions. The Micmac termination – Acadie ('occurrence place') appears to have no bearing on the origin of the choronym
Arcadia · Archaeology · Art history · Geography · Ideal (ethics · Political science · Canadian Identity and History · Historical and Literary Studies · History · Law
| Citations per year | 0.05 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1986 - 2005 (20) |
| Highly cited | No |