The Canary Islands Migration to Louisiana, 1778-1783 by 
Canary Islanders of Louisiana by Los Isleños Heritage and Cultural Society began to evolve in 1975 from work undertaken by St. Bernard Parish Historian Emeritus Frank Fernandez in conjunction with New Orleans Public Television Station WYES. Fernandez organized a group of septuagenarian and octogenarian oral history informants whose interviews formed the basis of a documentary entitled "Louisiana's Disappearing Spanish Legacy." The documentary first aired in September 1975 and generated great enthusiasm in the St. Bernard Isleño Community.
The Genealogy of the Canary Islands