This study takes an auto-ethnographic approach in assessing the relationships between women as a subject of historical study, traces of women’s historical experience judged as deserving archival preservation, and the representation of women in the Acadian historical narrative. For the purposes of this study, archives are defined as the collection and preservation of patrimonial heritage, whereas the historical narrative is defined as the construction of a consensual, representative, and global reading of a collectivity’s past. This paper argues that, in the case of both the archives and the historical narrative, values have been assigned to what is deemed worthy of collection, preservation, and representation. These values have affected researchers’ ability to construct an effective historical narrative on the subject of women in the Acadian context.