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844-442-7847 |
Jacques Cartier claimed Prince Edward Island for
France in 1534 on his first voyage across the Atlantic and named it Ile-St-Jean.
The land was settled 200 years later when French and Acadian farmers arrived
and founded their tiny capital near the present-day site of Charlottetown.
In 1755, the population suddenly doubled with an influx of Acadian refugees;
they had been forced to leave their lands when they refused their allegiance
to the Crown at the onset of the Seven Years War. After the capture of
Louisbourg in 1758, the British turned their attention to Ile-St-Jean and
its starving, dispirited population. All but 300 Acadians were shipped to
the American east coast areas; in 1763, the colony was subsequently renamed
the Island of St. John. In 1799, the island was again renamed Prince Edward
Island. 
