Editing Acadia (section)

===20th century and beyond===
By the early twentieth century, some Acadians were chosen for leadership positions in New Brunswick. In 1912, Monseigneur Édouard LeBlanc of Nova Scotia was named bishop of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint John, New Brunswick|Saint John]], after a campaign lasting many years to convince the Vatican to appoint an Acadian bishop.<ref>Landry and Lang, p.208</ref><ref>Wilbur, p.78</ref> In 1917, the premier of Prince Edward Island resigned to accept a judicial position, and his Conservative Party chose [[Aubin-Edmond Arsenault]] as successor until the next election in 1919. Arsenault thus became the first Acadian provincial premier of any province in Canada.<ref>{{cite web |title=Aubin-Edmond Arsenault Served as Premier: 1917 to 1919 |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/peigov/49582911898/in/album-72157713241253011/ |website=Historical Premiers Gallery |date=February 25, 2020 |publisher=Government of Prince Edward Island |access-date=30 June 2020}}</ref><ref>Landry and Lang, p.232</ref> In 1923, [[Peter Veniot]] became the first Acadian premier of New Brunswick when he was chosen by the Liberal Party to complete the term of the retiring premier until 1925.<ref>Wilbur p.123</ref>

The expansion of Acadian influence in the Catholic church continued in 1936 with the creation of the [[Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Moncton|Archdiocese of Moncton]]<ref>Wilbur, p.146</ref> whose first archbishop was [[Louis-Joseph-Arthur Melanson]], and whose [[Our Lady of the Assumption Cathedral, Moncton|Cathédrale Notre-Dame de l’Assomption]] was completed in 1940. The new archdiocese was expanded to include new predominantly Acadian dioceses in [[Bathurst, New Brunswick]] (1938), in [[Edmundston]] (1944) and in [[Yarmouth, Nova Scotia]] (1953).<ref>Landry and Lang, p.249-50</ref>

====Government of Louis Robichaud====
In 1960, [[Louis Robichaud]] became the first Acadian to be elected premier of a Canadian province. He was elected premier of New Brunswick in 1960 and served three terms until 1970.<ref>Landry and Lang, p.269-271</ref><ref>Wilbur, p.200</ref>

The Robichaud government created the [[Université de Moncton]] in 1963 as a unilingual French-language university,<ref>Landry and Lang, p.284</ref> corresponding to the much older unilingual English-language [[University of New Brunswick]]. In 1964, two different deputy ministers of education were named to direct English-language and French-language school systems respectively.<ref>Landry and Lang p.279</ref> In the next few years, the Université de Moncton absorbed the former Saint-Joseph's College,<ref name=UM>{{cite web |title=Historique - Notre université |url=https://www.umoncton.ca/notreumoncton/historique |website=Université de Moncton |access-date=29 July 2020 |language=fr}}</ref> as well as the École Normale (teacher's college) which trained French-speaking teachers for the Acadian schools.<ref>Wilbur, p.212-13</ref> In 1977, two French-speaking colleges in Northern New Brunswick were transformed into the [[Edmundston]] and [[Shippagan]] campuses of the Université de Moncton.<ref name=UM/>

The [[New Brunswick Equal Opportunity program]] of 1967 introduced reforms of municipal structures, of health care, of education, and of the administration of justice. In general, these changes tended to reduce economic inequality between regions of the province, and therefore tended to favour the disadvantaged Acadian regions.<ref>Landry and Lang p.271</ref>

The [[New Brunswick Official Languages Act (1969)]] declared New Brunswick officially bilingual with English and French having equal status as official languages. Residents have the right to receive provincial government services in the official language of their choice.<ref>{{cite web |title=History of Official Languages |url=https://officiallanguages.nb.ca/content/history-of-official-languages/ |website=Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages for New Brunswick (OCOLNB) |access-date=3 August 2020}}</ref>

====After 1970====
The New Brunswick government of [[Richard Hatfield]] (1970–87) cooperated with the [[Government of Canada]] in including the right to linguistic equality in the province as a part of the [[Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms]] of 1982, so that it cannot be rescinded by any future provincial government.<ref>Landry and Lang p.271-272</ref>

Nova Scotia adopted Bill 65 in 1981 to give Acadian schools legal status, and also created a study program including Acadian history and culture. The Acadian schools were placed under separate management in 1996.<ref>Landry and Lang p.280-281</ref>

Prince Edward Island provided French-language schools in 1980 in areas with a sufficient number of Acadian students, followed by a French-language school commission for the province in 1990. In 2000 a decision of the [[Supreme Court of Canada]] obliged the provincial government to build French schools at least in [[Charlottetown]] and [[Summerside, Prince Edward Island|Summerside]], the two largest communities.<ref>Landry and Lang p.283</ref>

The new French-language daily newspaper [[L'Acadie Nouvelle]] published in [[Caraquet]] appeared in 1984, replacing L’Évangeline which ceased publication in 1982.<ref>Landry and Lang p.289</ref>

The series of Acadian National Conventions from 1881 to 1972 was followed by an Acadian National Orientation Convention in 1979 at [[Edmundston]].<ref>{{cite web|title=La CONA de 1979: le flirt de l'Acadie du Nouveau-Brunswick avec l'indépendance|url=https://www.acadienouvelle.com/actualites/2020/01/02/la-cona-de-1979-le-flirt-de-lacadie-du-nouveau-brunswick-avec-lindependance/|author=Marc Poirier|website=Acadie Nouvelle|date=3 January 2020|access-date=16 August 2020}}</ref> Since 1994, there has been a new series of [[Acadian World Congress]]es at five-year intervals starting with 1994 in southeastern New Brunswick and 1999 in Louisiana. The most recent was centered in [[Summerside, Prince Edward Island]] in 2019.