Chandeleur

For Acadians, the historically French-speaking people of the Atlantic region, Feb. 2 is La Chandeleur — a day to welcome back the sun and celebrate with ...

They were quite proud to do it and quite proud to contribute." "Not only just to teach in the French language, math and literacy … to teach them about the Francophone and Acadian culture as well." And the captain — the chef of the Chandeleur — would carry a pole with a rooster on top." It was just a whole new world to me." And when they went to a house, they would knock at the door and say, 'Would you let the Chandeleur in?'" said Arsenault. Thursday with a pancake supper from 4 to 6 p.m. By the early 2000s, other French schools, including one in Rustico, were opening across P.E.I. So when I came home for Christmas I went around, interviewed quite a few people who had stories or remembered the tradition," said Arsenault. The rooster perplexed Arsenault at first, he said, but he thinks it may have been a holdover from France and the cock-fighting that was popular during Mardi Gras. "There was no work … The Chandeleur tradition on P.E.I.