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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The French Canadian accent is something I cannot get over. It’s like if you just speak French with the worst possible American accent. If anyone tried to speak like that in France, they would get continual looks of disgust. Why is their accent so bad?[/quote]

My mother’s ancestors came by boat from Eastern France to Canada over 300 years ago.   They kept incredible records in French on arrivals, births, marriages, deaths, even who was on boats coming and going.

The first refugees were Acadians from France who left France over religion intolerance .   Nova Scotia was the first province of Canada.

The British came and did what they do.  They kicked out thousands of French Acadians because they outnumbered the British and Britain wanted their land.  British burned down their houses and land and shipped them to various places. Some Acadians managed to come back to Nova Scotia, some were sent back to France, a lot ended up in Louisiana, a French colony, many went to Quebec.

French were strong people, many of the women lived to be 100 and had 10 children with very low mortality rate in children.  This intimidated the British.

My grandmother was the last in our family to speak fluent French.  My mother understood French but didn’t speak it very well.  The British passed a law that would only fund public schools if they taught in English only.  English won like it did in so many colonized countries.  [/quote]

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