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Sort of an out there thing I have been wondering for a while. Since their ancestors were expelled from from the lands that became Canada should they be allowed to claim Canadian citizenship or some sort of long term work visa?
Yes. Though do many Cajuns still speak French? If they returned to say Montreal, how would they adjust if they now only speak English.
Percentage wise not many speak it as a first language, but I think in pure numbers it is in the tens of thousands. It should be noted that Cajun French has evolved to be rather different from the French spoken in either Canada or France.
- "Canada" did not really exist at the time the ancestors of the Cajuns were expelled from Acadia. Acadia was (newly) British and present-day Quebec was still New France.
- If the Cajuns were to do an ''aaliyah'' and return to present-day Canada, it most likely wouldn't logically be to Montreal or Quebec, but to the Maritime provinces.
- A tiny minority of Cajuns are still native speakers of French, and a larger group (but still a small minority) speaks a bit of French as a second language, but the vast majority of Cajuns are English dominant or monolingual anglophones today. As such, a place where French is the main everyday language of basically everything would be fairly alien to the vast majority of them, regardless of their ethnic background.
They can go as long as they leave their seasonings here.
A lot of that stuff won't grow in the Canadian Maritimes anyway!
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