Acadia (disambiguation) explained

Acadia is the region of northeastern North America which was established as a French colony in the 17th century, today comprising roughly the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, the Gaspé region of Quebec; and parts of the U.S. state of Maine.

Acadia may also refer to:

Places

Canada

• Municipal District of Acadia No. 34, Alberta
• Acadia (federal electoral district), former district, Alberta
• Acadie (electoral district), former district in Montreal, Quebec
• Acadia (region)
• Acadia River, tributary of the Richelieu River, Quebec
• Acadia University, in Wolfville, Nova Scotia

Pitcairn Islands

• Acadia Islet, part of the Ducie Island atoll, Pitcairn Islands (British Overseas Territory), in the Pacific Ocean

United States

• Acadia National Park, in Maine
• Acadia Parish, Louisiana, established 1886
• A proposed partition of northern Maine; see

Biology

• Acadia (genus), a genus in the Mycetophilidae family of fungus gnats described by Vockeroth in 1980

Transport

• CSS Acadia, a museum ship in Halifax, Nova Scotia
• USAHS Acadia, SS Acadia (1932) converted to Army hospital ship 1941
• USS Acadia (AD-42), Yellowstone-class destroyer tender
• GMC Acadia, a 2007 crossover sport-utility vehicle (SUV)

Other uses

• ACADIA, a non-profit organization active in the area of computer-aided architectural design
• Acadia, a Stop & Shop brand of spring water products
• Acadia Pharmaceuticals
• Acadia (technical partnership), a joint venture in storage between Cisco, EMC, VMWare and Intel
• Acadia trees in RuneScape, an intentional misspelling of Acacia

See also

• Acadiana
• Acadian (disambiguation)
• Acadie (disambiguation)
• Accadia, a town in Apulia, Italy
• Akadia (disambiguation)
• Akkadian (disambiguation)
• Arcadia (disambiguation)
• Cascadia (disambiguation)