St. Pierre-et-Miquelon

What happens here?

fishing

Most people know each other there
They have a distinct culture, like Québec but closer to the French western coast
They think of themselves as French but also, especially Miquelonais
They are really aware that they come from France, more than the other French Americans, maybe because of their short, or almost inexistant history
They live of fishing and tourism (surprisingly)
That's literally all I know

>They are really aware that they come from France, more than the other French Americans, maybe because of their short, or almost inexistant history
Or maybe because they are still part of France. I don't know

They cucked Canada out of a disproportional size of their EEZ like Iceland does with the UK.

rightful Portuguese clay

You know realize that about 2 million French citizens live in French overseas departments scarttered around the globe.

French version of Malvinas

What's the tax rate like over there?

I have no idea
As I said, that's all I know

Lol, I remember reading something about you guys being the first ones to discover the islands but you never actually colonized it, did you?

not really colonised, no. we had fishing settlements all along newfoundland and labrador because they were seen as worthless besides that.

This was way before colonialism really took off, though.

no ETA like Americans.

ETA? What's that?

You guys really had settlements in Newfoundland and Labrador? That sounds really cool actually but what happened? Did they abandon the settlements after a while or did they get conquered?

We named both Newfoundland and Labrador. Newfie was called "Terra Nova do Bacalhau" - new land of cod.

I think we kept fishing there (probably payed a tax) and there's still a "Portuguese" cove somewhere, but ever since Canada sold its waters' rights to the Chinese, we changed to Iceland and Norway instead.

They didn't get conquered for sure. We also had Barbados as the only Portuguese Caribbean island, where we exiled some hews (barbados means bearded), but at some point we abandoned it too, must like all the African coast.

We simply did not have enough people to colonise it, and mainly focused on Brazil, Africa and India, which are very poor today, sure, but were basically prime land in a time where resource gathering was the game, and we got to pick first.

Turns out there was more value in development in the long game, but we simply could never do it because we were barely a million people at the beginning of our travel.

That's cool, you learn something new every day, don't you?

I already know everything, but you do you, buddy!

Top kek.

It's a basically a fee and a registration that Visa-exempt nationals have to go through and pay if they are going to Canada by air only. If you have a passport that needs a visa to go to Canada you have to get a visa but if you don't and you're going to arrive by air you have to pay and register for an ETA, if your passport doesn't need a visa and you're arriving to Canada by any other method you don't need an ETA.

Again, if you're arriving by air, and even if you don't need a visa to go to Canada, you need to register and pay the ETA, and basically the exceptions are if you have a French passport and are travelling directly to or from Saint Pierre and Miquelon or if you have an American passport.

The flag has the Basque, Brittany and Norman flags in it because the people are a mix of all three and speak French

Oh that's right, I've heard about it, this eTA-thing is really new to Canada, isn't it? I think they implemented it about two or three years ago, right?

Yeah, I've read that the Basque was spoken until the late 50's when it died out. Pretty cool, I wish I could find a recording and hear what that dialect sounded like.

yeah it's too bad. Diversity was our only strength and we lost it

no you can't because no one can hear basque and live
t. basque

Alas, if you kill your enemies, they win.

Lol

>but ever since Canada sold its waters' rights to the Chinese

what are you talking about? the cod industry collapsed in the 90s due to overfishing the portuguese have not been here since the 60s i have never heard of chinese ships in the north west atlantic

We left in the 60s because you guys stopped letting anyone fish in your waters for a price and replaced that system by selling it all to just one party. I thought it was the Chinese, but I might be wrong.