Welcome on board the Acadiaventure
 
 

The spirit of adventure which is "Acadiaventure".

Our aim is to:
 

Reach out to the French-speaking world in North America, part of whose heritage is based on the history of New France and which is so rich in cultural diversity. All along our route we will be meeting people who speak French or who have a love of the French language, with the object of sharing our different cultures by .
 
 

• Reporting from each port of call on all that is creative in this culture: anecdotes, stories, drawings, paintings, poetry…
• Posting these reports on our website.
• Organising conferences and debates throughout the journey and on our return to France.
• Initiating and participating in exchanges with French-speaking European countries by promoting town-twinning and school projects.
• Sharing the fruit of this collaboration by bringing out a diary of the journey, complete with sound, on CD.

The voyage of discovery "Acadiaventure" will be the framework for a project for schools, centred on the history and geography of the areas covered by its itinerary, including contacts with other school pupils through the website. Local school children will be invited on board the boat at the various ports of call to chat about the project.
 

Historic links
 

In a spirit of discovery we will be navigating historic waterways and acting as messengers for "New France", exchanging news and views at every port of call and every colonial or missionary settlement - our sailing boat being perhaps just a large canoe, as in the olden days.
 
 

A virtual link

The website "Acadiaventure" is intended to serve as a database and diary for our journey as well as a place to exchange information and ideas.
 
 

When and where

Departing from Charente Maritime in western France we arrived on the Acadian coast in June 2002 for a journey lasting two years which is taking us as far as Great lakes.

Itinerary: Detroit de Canso (Nova Scotia), the south of Prince Edward Island, the St Lawrence River, Quebec, Montreal...
 

The boat at Isle Madame

 
 
 

"ZEN" is a sailing boat (a sloop) 12m long, 4m wide, weighing 13 tonnes.

 

Introducing ourselves

Having built our boat and set off from France for a three-year voyage to Brazil and Canada, we finished our epic journey at St Pierre & Miquelon in 1995.

It was an unforgettable summer, travelling between Montreal and the Madeleine Islands, and we received such a fantastic welcome that we just had to come back to do the "Acadiaventure" project.
   

  
Gérard and Françoise Zeegers, the creators of the project.

contact@acadiaventure.org

The Acadiaventure team who are helping us:

 

Johnny Diot: computer expert and website technician johnny@acadiaventure.org	Michel Téodosijevic: journalist, in charge of press relations lapitiere@wanadoo.fr
contact us	Daniel Jouanique: computer expert, in charge of the log book and diary djouanique@savi-informatique.com

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