In this edition of Revisited we head to Canada to discover the diversity of the country's French accents and cultures as the use of French in the mainly English-speaking country declines. From Port Royal in Nova Scotia to Toronto via New Brunswick and Quebec, what remains of the 18th-century colony of New France? Our correspondent reports.
At its height in about 1750, New France, a vast French colony in North America, stretched from the St. Lawrence River in eastern Canada to Cajun country in present-day Louisiana in the south of the United States. But after France lost control of the territory to Great Britain in the Seven Years' War, the language of Molière came under immense pressure from Indigenous languages and American variations of English. Our correspondent went to meet those determined to keep the French language alive in Canada today.
