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Who are the Acadians?

AAboriginal people of the arctic.
BFrench-speaking Catholics living in Ontario.
✓The descendants of French colonists who began settling in what are now the Maritime provinces in 1604.
DEnglish speaking refugees who settled in Louisiana.

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The Acadians are descendants of French colonists who began settling in what are now the Maritime provinces in 1604. Many were deported in 1755 (the Great Expulsion) but later returned.

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