Acadian Frenchn.adj.

1741 J. Oldmixon Brit. Empire in Amer. (ed. 2) I. 30 I know not whether these Acadian French were not the first Settlers of that now formidable Colony, formidable in Barrenness, Frost and Snow.

1806 J. Stewart Acct. Prince Edward Island 153 It is not denied by the Accadian French still resident on the Island, that they were very partial to this savage practice of their neighbours.

1849 M. H. Perley Rep. New Brunswick (1852) 24 In the calm and dark nights during August and September, the largest eels are taken in great numbers by the Micmacs and Acadian French, in the estuaries and lagoons, by torch light, with the Indian spear.

1970 M. M. Orkin Speaking Canad. Eng. i. 14 Excepted from the Bluenose country were Cape Breton and Pictou County, almost wholly settled by..Highlanders, along with a few thousand ‘Associated Loyalists’ and a few ‘Acadian French’.

1990 A. S. Trenhaile Geomorphol. Canada ix. 191 The Acadian French began to dyke this marsh in 1670.

1850 Fraser's Mag. Mar. 334/2 The English woman..strove to enter into conversation with her..and she was obliged to call Claudine to her assistance, who, in Acadian French, succeeded much better.

1891 A. Fortier in Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 6 77 The lower class speak the Acadian French mixed with the Creole patois and a little English.

1976 Language 52 251 L[ucci] examines the status of Acadian French within the context of French Canada, and the main lines of the history of the Acadian settlement.

2005 Time Out 7 Dec. 185/4 On the Nova Scotian island of Cape Breton, three distinct ethnic groups have co-existed for centuries—Gaelic-speakers descended from settlers from the Highlands of Scotland, Acadian-French-speakers who trace their roots back to the French Canadians who were expelled from Canada in the eighteenth century by the British, and the native population, who speak a language called Mic Mac, and have been there all along.

1798 Descr. Island St. John 7 There are also about six or seven hundred of the original Acadian French settlers, who occupy three villages, and live comfortably by farming and fishing.

1846 J. W. Monette Hist. Discov. & Settlem. Valley of Mississippi I. iv. ii. 467 During the same year, the province received an accession to its population by the arrival of a large number of Acadian French families.

1893 J. Geddes, Jr. in Mod. Lang. Notes 8 225/1 (title) Comparison of two Acadian French dialects spoken in the north-east of North America with the Franco-Canadian dialect spoken at Ste. Anne de Beaupré, Province of Quebec.

1921 J. F. Herbin Jen of Marshes v. 46 I'm Acadian French. My people lived here once... My people have been living in New Brunswick since they left here.

1993 A. E. Marble Surgeons, Smallpox & Poor i. 13 The Acadian French population [of Nova Scotia] quadrupled in this period from 2,500 in 1713 to 10,800 in 1749.