Editing Saint Pierre and Miquelon (section)

===Ethnography===
Ruins show that [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Indigenous American]] people visited the archipelago on fishing and hunting expeditions before it was colonized by Europeans.<ref name="om-pres"/> The current population is the result of inflows of settlers from the French ports, mostly [[Normans]], [[Basque people|Basques]], [[Breton people|Bretons]] and [[Saintonge (region)|Saintonge]]ais, and also from the historic area of [[Acadia]] in Canada ([[Gaspé Peninsula]], parts of [[New Brunswick]], Prince Edward Island and [[Cape Breton]]) as well as [[Newfoundland French|Francophones]] who settled on the [[Port au Port Peninsula]] on Newfoundland.<ref name="om-pres"/>