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St John, Jersey. St John ( Jèrriais and French: Saint-Jean) is one of the twelve parishes of Jersey and is around 7.3 kilometres (4.5 mi) [a] north of St Helier on the north coast of the island. It has a surface area of 8.7 km2. St John's Village is also the name of the main village in the parish.
Île d'Orléans ( French pronunciation: [il d‿ɔʁleɑ̃]; English: Island of Orleans) is an island located in the Saint Lawrence River about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) east of downtown Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. It was one of the first parts of the province to be colonized by the French, and a large percentage of French Canadians can trace ...
Gustaf III Airport [3] ( IATA: SBH [3], ICAO: TFFJ [1] ), also known as Saint Barthélemy Airport, Rémy de Haenen Airport, sometimes as St. Jean Airport (French: Aérodrome de St Jean [1] ), is a public use airport located in the village of St. Jean on the Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy . Due to its very short runway, very close ...
Isle Saint-Jean was a French colony in North America that existed from 1713 to 1763 on what is today Prince Edward Island as part of the wider colony of Acadia. Colony Formation [ edit ] After 1713, France engaged in a reaffirmation of its territory in Maritime North America.
Saint Barthélemy ( French: Saint-Barthélemy, [sɛ̃ baʁtelemi] ⓘ ), officially the Collectivité territoriale de Saint-Barthélemy, [7] also known as St. Barts (English) [8] or St. Barth (French), is an overseas collectivity of France [9] in the Caribbean. The island lies about 30 kilometres (19 mi) southeast of the island of Saint Martin ...
In 1758, the British gained control of the island as a result of the Ile Saint-Jean Campaign during the Seven Years' War. Shortly thereafter, British forces began to deport a number of Acadians from the island. The island was formally established as the British colony of St. John Island in 1769, later renamed to Prince Edward Island in 1798.
The island is known in the Mi'kmaq language of its historic indigenous occupants as Abegweit or Epekwitk, roughly translated as "land cradled in the waves". When the island was part of Acadia, originally settled by French colonists, its French name was Île Saint-Jean (St. John's Island).
UTC-5 ( CDT) Area code. 985. House in Isle de Jean Charles after Hurricane Gustav in 2008. Isle de Jean Charles (known locally in Louisiana French as Isle à Jean Charles) is a narrow ridge of land situated in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. For over 170 years, it has been the historical homeland and burial ground of the state-recognized tribe of ...