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 (electoral district), former district, Alberta
- Acadie (electoral district), former district in Montreal, Quebec
- 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 List of U.S. state partition proposals § Maine
Biology
- Acadia (gnat), 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
See also
- Acadian (disambiguation)
- Acadie (disambiguation)
- Acca (disambiguation)
- Accadia, a town in Apulia, Italy
- Akadia (disambiguation)
- Akkadian (disambiguation)
- Arcadia (disambiguation)
- Cascadia (disambiguation)