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Try This:
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Under LAYER CONTROLS, turn on the checkboxes for "ACADIAN POPULATION, 1803."
- Click on the tag icons following "Acadian settlements, 1803" and "English towns, 1803" to turn on their labels.
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Notice ...
- The label "Acadia," used in 1750, is gone in 1803.
- The map is entirely “British pink.”
- The two large islands and various water bodies bear English names. (The Latin, "Nova Scotia," survives!)
- French names persist in the villages and outlying areas.
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Consider!
- It was French people who gave place names to this region, previously occupied by Native peoples.
- Through its place names, this area demonstrates defiance.
- The ancestors of the Rankins and Natalie McMaster had yet to come to Cape Breton Island.
- Place-naming tells a great deal about society and identity in a region.
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