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    The Acadians entering the region at this period were less subject to assimilation, because they frequently arrived with their families. Thanks to the research of Thomas W. White (Leblanc), it is known that between 1825 and 1860 there was a regular Acadian immigration, and we even have precise details as to their place of origin and subsequent family history.

    They were for the most part from the Cape Breton villages of Margaree and Cheticamp. From 1847, members of the Aucoin family settled at Stephenville, St. George's and Codroy. Benoits from Arichat appeared in about 1850 and in 1855 a Bourgeois, born in France and married to an Acadian, settled at St. George's. The first Cormiers reached Sandy Point, opposite St. George's, in 1847, followed in the same year by a Doucet or Doucette, who went to Port-au-Port. The Gallant family was in Stephenville in 1846; the Gaudets in 1855. From 1830 a Jesseau Jessôme, Jesso) family, from Bras d'Or in Cape Breton Island, had settled at St. George's, later moving to the peninsula. A branch of the Lejeune family also arrived in 1830, a year which brought a family of Pierrots; for reasons unknown they changed the family name to Alexandre.