>Mind you, when travelling from Ont. to PEI, when passing through New Brunswick I noticed more of the French tricoleur than any other flag, and a lot of them to boot, outside many houses. What's all that about? A province so close to the very "British" sounding PEI, Nova Scotia. Mind you, I suppose Cape Breton is not that far from there.

New Brunswick is Canada's only official bilingual province.

New Brunswick is the former French colony of Acadia. During the Seven Years War between England and France, the Acadians (French settlers) were expelled, many went to Lousiana to be Cajuns. A far too successful case of ethnic cleansing. Over the next century there was a return of some of the French, referred to as the "Silent Return".

I think this had an effect on how we have come to treat Quebec.