The traditional vocal music of Nova Scotia’s French Canadian population is a collage reflecting both its local and global historical connections. Realizing that this orally transmitted repertoire could become threatened, Daniel Boudreau and Anselme Chaisson collected hundreds of songs during the mid 20th Century from the community of Chéticamp, Cape Breton. Published as Chansons d'Acadie, this eleven volume collection contains music notation and lyrics for 566 songs. Although this is the largest collection of Acadian songs in print, scant attention has been paid to its contents. Through the lense of a Kodály influenced metaanalysis, this monograph presents an appraisal and indexing of essential features of this collection of songs to promote their use by music educators.