[Acajack]

Originally Posted by New Brisavoine

More generally, if the French know 6 provinces/regions in Canada, it's gonna be "le Québec, "l'Ontario", "l'Acadie", "Terre-Neuve" (no article), "la Nouvelle-Ecosse", and "la Colombie-Britannique". "Le Nouveau-Brunswick" is both a mouthfull and also not well known (it's "l'Acadie" which is known here). PEI, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta are also not well known here. "Le Yukon" is known, but mostly due to 'Uncle Scrooge' comic books and the gold rush (although I have a feeling many French people imagine that Yukon is somewhere in the US).

« Acadie » also is used for « Nouveau-Brunswick » in French Canada. Increasingly so. It excluded the majority of New Brunswickers who are not Acadiens but to most francophones in this country they don’t really exist. It’s really Acadiens that they think about when they think of the province.