Israël Landry
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Israël-J.-D. Landry was a Canadian writer, teacher, musician, and publisher. He is known for founding the first French-language Acadian newspaper Le Moniteur Acadien. In 1955, he was declared a Person
Portrait of Landry, 1892
First issue of Le Moniteur acadien
Shediac
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Shediac is a town in Westmorland County, New Brunswick known as the "Lobster Capital of the World". It hosts an annual festival every July which promotes its ties to lobster fishing. At the western en
Israël Landry
…for St. Michael's Basilica and a music teacher. In March 1867 he wrote and published a prospectus for a French-language newspaper. Landry then moved to Shediac and on July 8, 1867, he published the first issue of Le Moniteur Acadien. Le Moniteur was the first French-language newspaper published in the Maritimes…
Downtown
Lobster sculpture