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The British had scattered Nova Scotia’s French Acadians, some to the nearby islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon (still French today), others as far as Louisiana, while a small nucleus remained in New Brunswick.
Many of the villages fly the Acadians’ blue, white, and red flag modeled on that of France, but with a single star added to the blue band.
Like Nova Scotia, the island was transformed by the Acadians’ deportation and their replacement by New Englanders, who named it after Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, in 1799.
The Loyalists joined earlier settlers from New England, Pennsylvania, and Yorkshire, and French Acadians who had trickled back after their deportation during the Anglo-French wars.
During the troubled Spanish era, thousands of French exiles from eastern Canada — Acadians, shortened to Cajuns — migrated to Louisiana.
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