Also, considering NB is officially bi-lingual, never heard a French-Canadian accent other than from the Quebec tourists, and there were lots of the.
Compared to northern New-Brunswick there are not a lot of french-speaking New-Brunswickers (mostly Acadiens) living south of Fredericton. Although, since most of them are fluently bilingual, they're not as easy to spot as a Quebecois.
yep...language groups are still pretty geographically specific here. The north and east of the province are more french while english is predominant in the south/west.
The french speaking Acadians were originally in the southwest, but then their villages were burned and sacked and the people expelled so that Loyalist's from America could have their land. The ones that came back years later from the expulsion had to settle in somewhat less hospitable land in the north and east of the province, hence the geographic language and cultural divide.
You've actually got the locations and dates a little out of wack but the basic premise is sound.
Man! if only they'd stayed "expelled" things would be a lot less complicated around here!
Yeah, I know the Fundy area "changed hands" quite a few times in it's history. Sometimes it was even the Acadians fighting amongst themselves, but I don't know what I got out of wack except for leaving out details?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John_River_Campaignhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Fundy_Campaign I'm from the opposite corner of NB so I'm not that up on the local history of Saint John. NB is an interesting province cultural-wise. You'll have villages that speak only French, then one that's primarily English, then half-and-half where you're not sure if they're native English or French. Some areas and people have animosity towards speakers of the opposing language, but mostly that seems to be in the past.