Editing Acadia (section)

==Territory==
During much of the 17th and early 18th centuries, [[Norridgewock]] on the [[Kennebec River]] and [[Castine, Maine|Castine]] at the end of the [[Penobscot River]] were the southernmost settlements of Acadia.<ref name=Reid1998>{{cite book |first=John G. |last=Reid |chapter=An International Region of the Northeast: Rise and Decline, 1635–1762 |editor1-last=Buckner |editor1-first=Phillip A. |editor2-last=Campbell |editor2-first=Gail G. |editor3-last=Frank |editor3-first=David |title=The Acadiensis Reader: Atlantic Canada Before Confederation |publisher=Acadiensis Press |edition=third |year=1998 |page=[https://archive.org/details/atlanticcanadabe0000unse/page/31 31] |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jnxIPgAACAAJ&pg=PA31 |isbn=978-0-9191-0744-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/atlanticcanadabe0000unse/page/31 }}</ref><ref name="Griffiths2005">{{cite book|last=Griffiths|first=N.E.S.|title=From Migrant to Acadian: A North American Border People, 1604-1755|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cG4wSmIlziYC&pg=PA61|year=2005|publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press|isbn=978-0-7735-2699-0}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Webster |first=John Clarence |author-link=John Clarence Webster |title=Acadia at the End of the Seventeenth Century : Letters, Journals and Memoirs of Joseph Robineau de Villebon, Commandant in Acadia, 1690-1700, and Other Contemporary Documents |publisher=The New Brunswick Museum |date=1934 |page=121 |url=https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/asset-management/2R3BF1F3AQ4YS }}</ref> 
The French government defined the borders of Acadia as roughly between the [[40th parallel north|40th]] and [[46th parallel north|46th parallels]] on the Atlantic coast.

The borders of French Acadia were not clearly defined, but the following areas were at some time part of French Acadia : 
* Present-day mainland [[Nova Scotia]], with [[Port-Royal (Acadia)|Port Royal]] as its capital. Lost to Great Britain in 1713.
* Present-day [[New Brunswick]], which remained part of Nova Scotia until becoming a separate colony in 1784. Lost to Great Britain in 1763.
* [[Île-Royale (New France)|Île-Royale]], later ''Cape Breton Island'', with the [[Fortress of Louisbourg]]. Lost to Great Britain in 1763.
* [[Île Saint-Jean]], later ''Prince Edward Island''. Lost to Great Britain in 1763.
* The part of present-day [[Maine]] east of the [[Kennebec River]]. Lost to Great Britain in 1763.