The Bourdages were first brought to Canada from France by Raymond Bourdages in the late 1700s. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page They are considered one of the original Acadian families to colonize in the French-speaking maritimes. This article is about the Acadian people and culture The Acadians (Acadiens are the descendants of the seventeenth-century French French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people