Where did the acadians live?

Answer 1

It depends on which land you are talking about. French settlers became known as Acadians by making their home in part of Nova Scotia in Canada, around 1605.

They were removed from their homes and deported by the ruling English from Nova Scotia in 1755. This is the year they began to arrive in Louisiana, and the word "Acadian" evolved into "Cajun".

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Before the 1600s there was no group of people known as Acadians. The group originated in the area of what is now Nova Scotia. So Acadians could not come to Canada as they didn't exist before Canada.

The second contributor is splitting hairs a little. Of course there was no country called Canada when the first French settlers arrived on this continent. Take the spirit of the question, please.

Actually, the first French settlement in this part of the world was at the St. Croix River, which is in Maine now. Acadians, who were (and are) distinct from the Quebecois of what became Lower Canada, could be found in what is now Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island (then called Ile St. Jean). Because the French crown pretty much left them to their own devices in many regards, they developed a sense of community and social identity that was, indeed, distinct from their confreres up the St. Lawrence.

Answer 2

Originally from France to Canada and then to LouisianaAcadia was the original name of what we now know as Nova Scotia. The original settlers came there as fishermen from all over France and would dry Cod they had caught near it's shores.

In 1604 the original French settlement was started on Saint Croix Island with a colony of 79 men. The following spring 35 of the 79 men were dead the following spring and the settlement was moved to Port Royal on the other side of the Bay of Fundy. It was one of the first permanent settlements in North America. They called the location L'Acadie based on the work of Virgil. The settlers were knows as Acadians.

In 1710 during Queen Anne's War, the British laid siege to Port Royal which marked the beginning of British rule over Acadia which they renamed Nova Scotia. British control placed the Acadians in a sticky predictiment since they were Frenchmen under British rule. On several occaisions they were asked to take oaths to the British Crown but most refused in preference to remaining neural.

In 1755 approximately 11,500 Acadians (75% of the population of Acadia) were expelled during what Acadians call le Grand Dérangement. They were deported to British colonies from New England to Georgia. Many families were split up. Thousands more were sent back to France and later to Louisiana where they joined others who had been sent there earlier. Many who were sent to British colonies escaped and went to Louisiana. The Louisiana Acadians are called Cajuns.

Still other Acadians settled in what is now Northern Maine and New Brunswick or went to other French settlements in and around Quebec.

Today you find large groups of Acadians in Northern Maine (Aroostook County), Louisiana and the Eastern Maritime provinces of Canada.

Answer 3

The Acadians first lived in the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, and in present day Maine. During the French and Indian War, British colonial officers and New England legislators executed the Great Expulsion of 1755-1763, in which the acadians either returned to France or moved down to Louisiana (at that time a French colony). The descendants of the acadians in modern day Louisiana are known as "Cajuns." Many also returned to maritime Canadian provinces, especially in New Brunswick.