Today Acadians are a vibrant minority, particularly in New Brunswick and Maine. Notable Acadians include singers Angèle Arsenault and Edith Butler, writer Antonine Maillet, boxer Yvon Durelle, former Governor General Roméo LeBlanc, and former New Brunswick premier Louis Robichaud, who was the first Acadian premier and who was responsible for modernizing education and the government of New ...

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During the 17th century, about 100 French families were established in Acadia. The Acadians avoided the disputes between the French and the British and became known as the "neutral French." They developed friendly relations with the aboriginal Mi'kmaq, learning their hunting and fishing techniques. The Acadians became British subjects when France ceded Acadia by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, and Acadia became known as Nova Scotia ("New Scotland"). When the French and Indian War began in 1754, the British government, doubting the neut ...

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  New Brunswick: 26,220   Quebec: 17,420   Nova Scotia: 11,180   Ontario: 8,745   Prince Edward Island: 3,020   Acadians   Cajuns   Métis   Québécois The Acadians (French: Acadiens) are the original French settlers of parts of the northeastern region of North America comprising what is now the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island. Although Acadians and Queb ...

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Cajun French is a dialect of the French language spoken primarily in the U.S. state of Louisiana, particularly in Lafayette Parish and St. Martin Parish. It is derived from another French dialect, Acadian, which is spoken in the state of Maine and in Canada's Maritime Provinces. Cajun French - History. In 1755 (during the French and Indian War), about 75% of the Acadian population living in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia were deported. Many of them resettled in Louisiana, establishing the culture and ...

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Not everybody who lives in Acadiana is culturally Acadian or speaks the Acadian dialect of the French language, nor is everybody who is culturally Acadian or "Cajun" descended from the Acadian refugees. Acadian French is only spoken as a mother tongue in rural areas, with cities such as Lake Charles, Lafayette and Houma being mainly English-speaking. In some more assimilated areas where the Acadian language was lost due to government schooling and social forces, the popularity of learning Acadian French as a second language has grown considerably. The only "good" accent spoken in the region tends to be ...

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Today, Acadia refers to regions of Atlantic Canada with French roots, language, and culture. In the abstract, Acadia refers to the existence of a French culture on Canada’s east coast. In 1994, Acadians and Cajuns held the first Acadian World Congress in Moncton, New Brunswick. Clive Doucet's book Notes from Exile is about the 1994 Acadian World Congress. Subsequent world congresses were held in 1999 and 2004. The national anthem of Ac ...

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In 1755 (during the French and Indian War), about 75% of the Acadian population living in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia were deported. Many of them resettled in Louisiana, establishing the culture and language there. Through the Acadian language, Cajun is ultimately descended from the dialects of Anjou and Poitou (see Poitevin-Saintongeais). This heritage has left a few archaic words in the dialect; for example, crevette< ...

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Eastern Texas:    56,000 (est.) Other US states:    91,000 (est.)   Québécois   Acadians   Cajuns The Cajuns are an ethnic group consisting essentially of the descendants of Acadians who were expelled from Nova Scotia as a result of their refusal to swear allegiance to the British Crown and resettled in Louisiana. The word "Cajun" is a corruption of the French word acadien, after Acadia, the name of t ...

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French is one of the two official languages of the province of New Brunswick. Acadian French is spoken in the Canadian Maritimes (Acadia), and is an ancestor of Cajun French. New Brunswick has the largest Acadian population, and is the only province that is officially bilingual. About one-third of New Brunswickers are francophone.[4] Newfoundland French is endangered. ...

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Moncton's linguistic majority is English, however the city has an active French-speaking Acadian minority population (35%), many of whom speak the Chiac variant of Acadian French. The adjacent city of Dieppe is approximately the reverse, being majority French and has benefitted from an ongoing rural depopulation of the Acadian Peninsula and areas in northern and eastern New Brunswick. The town of Riverview meanwhile is heavily (95%) anglophone. The different linguistic characteristics of the three com ...

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The five main cultures are Scottish, Mi'kmaq, Acadian, Irish, and English, with respective languages Mi'kmaq, French, Scottish Gaelic, and English. English is now the primary spoken language, though Mi'kmaq, Gaelic and Acadian French are still heard. Later migrations of black Loyalists, Italians, and Eastern Europeans enriched the eastern part of the island around Industrial Cape Breton. Cape Breton has been seeing a population exodus in recent years. According to the Census of Canada, the population of Cape Breton Island in 2001 ...

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Cajuns are primarily the descendants of Acadian refugees; however other groups have contributed to the modern Cajun population. Non-Acadian French Creoles in rural areas were absorbed into Cajun communities. Many Cajuns also have ancestors who were not French. German colonists began to settle in Louisiana before the Louisiana Purchase, particularly on the "German Coast" along the Mississippi River north of New Orleans. People of Spanish origin, including many Canary Islanders have settled along the Gulf Coast, and in some cases intermarried ...

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The original aboriginal inhabitants of the Petitcodiac river valley were the Mi'kmaq. French Acadians first settled the area in 1733 and established a farming community called Le Coude (The Elbow). Following the deportation of the Acadians in 1755, the settlement remained empty until a group of eight immigrant families arrived from Pennsylvania in June 1766. They were armed with a land grant issued by the Philadelphia Land Company, one of the principal investors of which was Benjamin Franklin. A township gradually grew on the site wit ...

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Although Quebec is the only province that has a francophone majority, all provinces and territories have some French speakers. Each of these groups has its own cultural institutions, history and identity. See: Acadian Franco-Ontarian Franco-Manitoban Fransaskois Franco-Albertan Franco-Columbian In addition, Quebec has an Anglo-Quebecer community. Although only English and French have official status across Canada, all provinces also have communities of people whos ...

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Cajun - Language. It is usually presumed that Cajun French is mainly derived from Acadian French as it was spoken in the French colony of Acadia (now located in the Maritime provinces of Canada), though the dialect also had influences from Quebec French, Haitian French and Haitian Creole, as well as European French. Cajun is a dialect of French, but differs from Parisian or Metropolitan French in some areas of pronunciation and vocabulary. As of 2004, most of the older generations in Acadiana are bilingual, havin ...

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Cajun - Language. Main article: Cajun French It is usually presumed that Cajun French is mainly derived from Acadian French as it was spoken in the French colony of Acadia (now located in the Maritime provinces of Canada), though the dialect also had influences from Quebec French, Haitian French and Haitian Creole, as well as European French. Cajun is a dialect of French, but differs from Parisian or Metropolitan French in some areas of pronunciation and v ...

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Moncton is located in southeastern New Brunswick in the Petitcodiac River valley, along the north bank of the river at a point where it bends from a west-east flow to a north-south direction. As such, the early Acadian settlers in the region named the area "Le Coude" (French for "The Elbow"). Moncton was originally at the head of navigation up the Petitcodiac River, but a causeway to Riverview was built in the 1960's causing extensive infilling by sedimentation of the river downstream. T ...

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