Acadia (region)

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Acadia is a North American cultural region in the Maritime provinces of Canada where approximately 300,000 French-speaking Acadians live. The region lacks clear or formal borders; it is usually considered to be the north and east of New Brunswick as well as many localities in Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia. Some also include a few localities in Quebec and/or Maine. An historical or operational definition of Acadia can also refer to the entire three Maritime provinces or those province's French-speakers even in now English-speaking majority areas such as Halifax. Although Newfoundland was not part of the original Acadia, the historic dispersal of Acadians to Newfoundland and modern cultural connections tying French-speaking Newfoundlanders with those in the Maritimes can also include Newfoundland or Newfoundland and Labrador in these definitions. For example, Le Téléjournal Acadie is the French-language television newscast for all Atlantic Canada including reports from all four provinces...

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