Most Quebecers are descendants of whom?
- 8,500 French settlers from the 1600s and 1700s
- Acadians deported from Nova Scotia
- British soldiers who stayed after 1759
- Loyalists who fled the American Revolution
Answer: 8,500 French settlers from the 1600s and 1700s
Most Quebecers descend from 8,500 French settlers who came in the 1600s and 1700s, and they keep a unique identity, culture and language. Quebec also has one million Anglo-Quebecers, whose heritage goes back 250 years.
Learn more: Acadians and Quebecers
- The Acadians descend from French colonists who began settling in what are now the Maritime provinces in 1604.
- Between 1755 and 1763, during the war between Britain and France, more than two-thirds of the Acadians were deported.
- This deportation is known as the “Great Upheaval”.
- The Acadians survived, kept their identity, and Acadian culture is now a flourishing part of French-speaking Canada.
- Most Quebecers descend from 8,500 French settlers of the 1600s and 1700s and keep a unique identity, culture and language.
- In 2006 the House of Commons recognized that the Quebecois form a nation within a united Canada.
- One million Anglo-Quebecers have a 250-year heritage in Quebec.