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The Acadians (French: Acadiens) are the descendants of the seventeenth-century French colonists who settled in the Canadian Maritime provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, and in the US state of Maine (Acadia ), a region geographically separate from Quebec which led to their developing two distinct cultures. In the Great Expulsion of 1755-1763, more than 14,000 Acadians were deported and many later settled in Louisiana, where they became known as Cajuns.