Editing French language in Canada (section)

===Newfoundland===
The island was discovered by European powers by [[John Cabot]] in 1497. [[Newfoundland (island)|Newfoundland]] was annexed by England in 1583. It is the first British possession in [[North America]].

In 1610, the Frenchmen became established in the [[peninsula of Avalon]] and went to war against the Englishmen. In 1713, the [[Treaty of Utrecht]] acknowledged the sovereignty of Great Britain.

The origin of [[Franco-Newfoundlanders]] is double: the first ones to arrive are especially of [[Breton people|Breton]] origin, attracted by the fishing possibilities. Then, from the 19th century, the Acadians who came from the [[Cape Breton Island]] and from the [[Magdalen Islands]], an archipelago of nine small islands belonging to Quebec, become established.

Up to the middle of the 20th century, Breton fishers, who had Breton as their mother tongue, but who had been educated in French came to settle. This Breton presence can explain differences between the Newfoundland French and the Acadian French.

In the 1970s, the French language appears in the school of Cape St. George in the form of a bilingual education. In the 1980s, classes of French for native French speakers are organized there.<ref name="Atlas Universalis 1996 p.57" /><ref>Atlas Universalis (1996), Tome 4, pp. 840–842</ref>