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.
I remember reading “Evangeline” when I was in school-—and the Cajun history also.
Those Brits were tough-—my father in law,born in Ireland in the late 1880s,despised them.