Isle Saint-Jean

After 1713, France engaged in a reaffirmation of its territory in Maritime North America.

Besides the construction of Acadian settlement of Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island, France was resolved to organize a colony on Isle Saint-Jean.

During the years 1740–1750, hundreds of Acadians fled Nova Scotia, which had been conquered by the British in 1713, to exile themselves on this island.

In all, 1,649 Acadians, around 53% of the total number deported, died from drowning or diseases.

[1] In 1763, France ceded the Isle Saint-Jean officially to Great Britain, with the Treaty of Paris.