Landry Family 2004

On November 16, 2001, a group of eleven people met at the Enterprise Centre of Hants County in Windsor, Nova Scotia, to begin organizing the Landry Family reunion during the 3rd Congrès mondial acadien in 2004. Other meetings were held October 2, 2002 and May 15, 2003.

It was decided that the Landry family reunion would take place August 8 and 9, 2004 in Windsor.The main venue will be Exhibition Park where many of the activities will be happening (see the proposed preliminary program). The name "Association Landry 2004 Family Reunion" was registered with the province March 14, 2002, as well as with the Congrès mondial acadien 2004. A Registration Form and membership cards were printed and are already being issued.

The reason the reunion will be held in Windsor, at the head of the Annapolis Valley, right in the heart of historic Acadia, is to a large extent an initative of the people who live in the area, since the Windsor area was the historic Piziquid area before the deportation. Three locations in this area have been identified as former Landry family villages. We expect there will be tours at one of these locations, Castle Frederick, where we will be able to see the foundations of former Landry family houses.

We are also proposing to visit the Sainte Famille Cemetery where Acadians were buried before the deportation in 1755. While digging a foundation in 1986, skeletons were discovered in a lot on Gabriel Road in Falmouth, (close to Windsor). The lot became a national historic site on August 13, 2000. A monument commemorates the Acadian families who lived in the area. In summary, there is a group of local people who would like to lend a hand in organizing the Landry family reunion in 2004.

The central location of Windsor is an advantage, almost in the middle of the Landry families in the North-East (Isle-Madame, Pomquet) and the South-West (Belleville, etc.), and also near the border with New Brunswick from which the organizers hope to welcome more Landry family members. It should be noted that the Grand Pre National Historic Site (where the deportation started in 1755) is only half an hour from Windsor and Port Royal, where the first permanent Acadian settlement began in 1605, is only an another hour away.

The logo chosen for the reunion is the Landry family crest on the Acadian Family Coat of Arms display at the Centre acadien de l’Université Sainte-Anne (Pointe-de-l’Église), Nova Scotia. We have used the logo on the Association letterhead and on this website.