Today, Acadian culture is a lively part of which community?
- English-speaking New England
- French-speaking Canada
- Inuit culture in the Arctic
- Métis culture on the Prairies
Answer: French-speaking Canada
Discover Canada says Acadian culture is flourishing today and is a lively part of French-speaking Canada. The Acadians descend from French colonists who began settling in what are now the Maritime provinces in 1604. They survived the Great Upheaval of 1755–1763, when more than two-thirds were deported.
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- 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.