One of Gérald Leblanc’s most important legacies is the unlikely creation of the myth of Moncton as the cultural capital of Acadie. He succeeds in doing so by using proven strategies, such as the introduction into his works of a narrative describing Moncton as an ebullient centre for arts and culture as well as through the construction of parallel oppositions, both temporal and spatial, such as the traditional versus the modern and the rural versus the urban. Moncton’s shortcomings as a capital for a francophone culture become, in the eyes of Leblanc, occasions for literary possibility. Leblanc’s symbolic re-construction of Moncton is deemed very compelling by the inner circle of Acadian artists and their public, who believe in the myth and, in so doing, make it a reality. Beyond Acadie, the power of the myth is more uncertain; while some accept it, others point to what they perceive as being the gap between Moncton in the poetic dream of Leblanc and Moncton in its reality.