Acadian Lines
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| Slogan | "A time just for you..." |
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| Founded | 1 August 1938 |
| Defunct | 30 November 2012 |
| Headquarters | 92 Lester Street, Moncton, New Brunswick |
| Service area | Eastern Canada |
| Service type | Intercity coach service |
| Alliance | Orléans Express |
| Stops | 92 |
| Stations | 14 |
| Fleet | 38 |
Acadian Lines was a Canadian coach operator based in Moncton, New Brunswick.
The company was established in Halifax, Nova Scotia by industrialist Roy Jodrey on 1 August 1938 as Nova Scotia Coach Lines, a division of United Service Corporation. In 1947, it became known as Acadian Lines and on 28 December 1955, Acadian Lines became a wholly owned company when it was purchased from United Service Corporation by George C. Thompson, Ralph A. Pepper, and Gordon H. Thompson. The company subsequently purchased the bus operations of Fleetlines Limited of Halifax and Highland Lines of Sydney. Acadian Lines operated regular passenger and parcel express services between communities throughout the province.
Acadian Lines was Nova Scotian-owned until December 1995, when the Irving Transportation Group purchased Acadian Lines Ltd. and merged SMT (Eastern), an Irving subsidiary which operated scheduled and chartered bus services in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, with Acadian Lines while maintaining and expanding the Acadian name throughout the Maritimes.
In 2004, Irving Transportation Group sold Acadian Lines to the Orléans Express group. Orléans Express modified the company logo to include an upside-down "a" for the third "a" (thus becoming Acadiɐn); the legal company name remains spelled "Acadian" for correspondence. Effectively, this made the logo a bilingual ambigram, as the "ɐ" could either stand for "a" (English), or "e" (French).
Acadian Lines operated regular bus services between New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia as well as Rivière-du-Loup, and Quebec (connecting with Orléans Express).
In 2006, Acadian Lines cancelled bus service on the route between Halifax and Yarmouth due to low ticket sales.
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