Acadia is neither a country, nor even a province of Canada. The first French settlers to form Acadia settled in 1604 on Ile-Sainte-Croix in the French Bay (today Bay of Fundy) In 1713, France ceded this “buffer” territory to the English.
Despite this, Acadia developed and had nearly 13,000 inhabitants in 1750. This territory without stable borders was then home to a people attached to their French roots, but left at the mercy of English troops.