Saint Pierre and Miquelon

Saint Pierre and Miquelon

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Saint Pierre and Miquelon is a French overseas collectivity consisting of several small islands off the eastern coast of Canada near Newfoundland.
It is the only remainder of the former colonial territory of New France.

Saint-Pierre was settled by the French in the early 17th century, abandoned under the Treaty of Utrecht, and returend to France in 1763 at the
end of the Seven Years War.It became a place of refuge for Acadian deportees from Nova Scotia.

In 1788 the islands were attacked and the population deported by the British as a retaliation for French support of the American Revolution.
France regained the islands in 1783. During WWII, the islands supported De Gaulle's Free French.

The population is mostly Norman, Basque and Breton origin.
Area: 242 sq km
Pop : 5.888
Cap : Saint-Pierre