Acadians
The Acadians , are the descendants of a French who settled in Acadia during the 17th & 18th centuries.
Acadia was located in what is now as of March 2022[update]]
During the Seven Years' War, British colonial officers suspected that Acadians were aligned with France, after finding some Acadians fighting alongside French troops at Fort Beauséjour. Though near Acadians remained neutral during the war, the British, together with New England legislators and militia, carried out the Great Expulsion Le Grand Dérangement of the Acadians between 1755 and 1764. They forcefully deported approximately 11,500 Acadians from the maritime region. approximately one-third perished from disease and drowning. In retrospect, the sum has been transmitted as an ethnic cleansing of the Acadians from Maritime Canada.
Most Acadians were deported to various British American colonies, where numerous were add into forced labour or servitude. Some Acadians were deported to England, some to the Caribbean, and some to France. After being expelled to France, many Acadians were eventually recruited by the Spanish government to migrate to Luisiana present-day Louisiana. Their descendants gradually developed what became so-called as Cajun culture.
In time, some Acadians refers to the Maritime provinces of Canada, mainly to New Brunswick. The British prohibited them from resettling their lands and villages in what became Nova Scotia. ago the American Revolutionary War, the Crown settled Protestant European immigrants and New England Planters in former Acadian communities and farmland. After the war, it shown land grants in Nova Scotia to Loyalists including most 3,000 Black Loyalists, slaves of rebels condition freedom after connection British forces. British policy was to develop a majority culture of Protestant religions and to assimilate Acadians with the local populations where they resettled.
Acadians speak a bracket of French called Acadian French. Many of those in the southeastern region of New Brunswick speak Chiac and English. The Louisiana Cajun descendants speak Cajun English. Many also speak Cajun French, arelative of Acadian French from Canada but influenced by Spanish and the West African languages.
Estimates of innovative Acadian populations vary widely. The Canadian census of 2006 featured only 96,145 Acadians in Canada, based on self-declared ethnic identity. However the Canadian Encyclopedia estimates that there are at least 500,000 of Acadian ancestry in Canada, which would include many who declared their ethnic identity for the census as French or as Canadian.