My mother’s family was among the early Irish settlers-—she lived on the southern shore of Cape Breton and taught for several years in their one-room schoolhouse before she came to the U.S.in the 1920s.
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We saw Scottish settlements in that southern shore as well.
The French Acadian were prior to and separate from the Quebec French. For centuries it was not acknowledged what the British authorities had done. It was such an early case of ethnic cleansing that the first good histories of the events approached it on that basis.
The Scottish, Massachusetts, Irish and other British settlers were brought in to supplant the previous Acadian settlers. The Mi’kmaq indians of Nova Scotia and the Acadian french were the earliest good example of european and native peoples in harmony to the point that after the initial generations there was significant inter-marriage.