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Originally Posted by Rerun
I admit, I have no statistics to back this up. I'm basing this primarily on my personal experience of living in Nova Scotia and being a former member of the Canadian Coast Guard in Dartmouth, where I met many people of Acadian origin. Also my wife's family on her father's side is of Acadian origin and rarely do they speak "Acadian".... as a matter of fact its been so long that he has conversed in the Acadian dialect that he admits that he has a difficult time doing so.
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Your experience in Nova Scotia would be very different from New Brunswick (where the majority of French-speaking Acadians live). Nova Scotia is a unilingual English province whereas New Brunswick is officially bilingual where both English and French have total equality of status.
Overall, native English-speakers outnumber Francophones in NB by about a 2:1 margin, but there are areas in the province, particularly in the north, where French is the dominant language. The Moncton area has about a 50-50 split between languages.
[Edit] According to StatsCan, French-speakers make up 33% of the population in New Brunswick but only 4% of the population of Nova Scotia as of the 2006 census.