The word 'cajun' is a corruption of 'Acadian'. 'Acadia' was the French name for the regions of what was then known as New France (now Canada) from which the Cajuns' ancestors were originally exiled to Louisina, following the fall of Montreal in 1763 and the ceding of most of eastern New France to Britain in the Treaty of Paris (1764).
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