Question 1 When the rival empires of France and Britain were fighting over their North American colonies, the British Expulsion of the Acadians in 1755 took place because the Acadians wanted to remain loyal to their native France. True or False Question 2 The ancestors of present-day Acadian arrived from France in the 1630s. True or False Question 3 Canada's first immigrants could be considered to be the Native peoples. True or False Question 4 A large proportion of immigrants today living in Canada are recent arrivals. True or False Top of Page