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Obviously, these small islands are literally within sight of a Canadian province, and it'd probably make much more sense for it to be a part of Canada than a country an ocean away. According to Google Earth, the straight line distance between Newfoundland and St. Pierre is a whopping 11 miles.
Maybe French people first inhabited it??? Maybe the same reason that there's people in Louisiana that speak French (ok, it's a bit different ).
Yea, but there's Québec which was promptly taken by the Brits after the Seven Years War. Apparently St. Pierre went part and parcel with all of New France, but the Brits gave back that spat of land to the French.
And I wonder how many people have French as their first language in Louisiana. Sure, the sign says 'Welcome to/ Bienvenue a Louisiana" but besides some people in the swamp, is there a sizeable population?
Yea, but there's Québec which was promptly taken by the Brits after the Seven Years War. Apparently St. Pierre went part and parcel with all of New France, but the Brits gave back that spat of land to the French.
And I wonder how many people have French as their first language in Louisiana. Sure, the sign says 'Welcome to/ Bienvenue a Louisiana" but besides some people in the swamp, is there a sizeable population?
It always has been french, though in recent years the local population sent the Paris appointed governor packing. When the Brits and the French came to an agreement ca. 1763 about North America, France was left these two rocky outposts perhaps a a reminder of their failure to hold on to their vast territorial holdings. I took a ferry there from Newfoundland in 1984 and stayed two nights, a pretty quiet place, quite French but also quite newfy in some respects.
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