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Originally Posted by MonctonRad
I would guess the NS Acadians were just more stubborn than the Gaelic speakers.
The Highland Scots who immigrated to NS were after all British, and would have had considerable interaction with English or Scots (lowland) speakers back home. Also, they may have been more resigned to the fact that they were in fact immigrating to an English speaking continent and therefore would eventually be absorbed into the Anglophone majority.
Acadians would feel differently about the assimilation process. They were after all here first.........
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Thinking about this further, I don't know what relationship there was between religion and language for the Highland Scots, but for the Acadians this was one area of their lives where the French language totally predominated.
The Acadians were very devoutly Catholic, and even though school, government affairs, business and most everything else would have been English outside of your family and friends, the church was one place where everything was always in French and generally in French only.