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uncle arnie wrote:
North America was partitioned in 1776, with various 19th century updates as the settlement moved west. We share much. Both nice and nasty people. The accents are different, but the weirdest thing has to be that some Newfoundlanders sound like people from the US south. They are most likely Canadians from way back. The English did much ethnic cleansing and many French were forcibly moved out. many of them wound up in the Southern States. The term Cajun comes from the word Acadia, which was renamed by the Anglos. ================================================== ==== The area comprising today's New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, was once known as "ACADIA". The first Frenchmen arrived at Port Royal (present-day Annapolis Royal), in 1605. Settlement continued until the early 1700's when, in 1713, ACADIA was given to the British. http://www.acadian.org/definitions.html ================================================== ==== -- Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it. Terry Pratchett |
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Moi, j'ai une famille est partiallement d'Acadie. They didn't leave.
Became Anglos. Others were UEL, others came to Canada from the US much later. Apparently we're all about 6th cousins - those whose relatives immigrated to the new world in colonial days. On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 15:46, m II posted to rec.radio.shortwave: %MM uncle arnie wrote: North America was partitioned in 1776, with various 19th century updates as the settlement moved west. We share much. Both nice and nasty people. The accents are different, but the weirdest thing has to be that some Newfoundlanders sound like people from the US south. They are most likely Canadians from way back. The English did much ethnic cleansing and many French were forcibly moved out. many of them wound up in the Southern States. The term Cajun comes from the word Acadia, which was renamed by the Anglos. ================================================== ==== The area comprising today's New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, was once known as "ACADIA". The first Frenchmen arrived at Port Royal (present-day Annapolis Royal), in 1605. Settlement continued until the early 1700's when, in 1713, ACADIA was given to the British. http://www.acadian.org/definitions.html ================================================== ==== |
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