>>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.
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>New Brunswick is Canada's only official bilingual province.
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>New Brunswick is the former French colony of Acadia. During the Seven Years War between England and France, the Acadians (French settlers) were expelled,

Aye I read all about this, strangely enough in "The Holy Blood & The Holy Grail" where (Arcadia?) features quite heavily at the beginning. I'd ommitted to assoc. this region with Arcadia.

>many went to Lousiana to be Cajuns.

"Cajun" being a corruption of "'cadian"

>A far too successful case of ethnic cleansing.
Were they not given the option to swear allegiance to the British Crown first?

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>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.