In 1763,
Acadians who had been expelled from modern-day
Nova Scotia and
New Brunswick during
le Grand Dérangement landed at Le Morne-Rouge. In 1765, their colony, called Champflore, had roughly 400 residents, 100 of them Acadians who had previously been exiled to
New York, the remainder from
Germany and
Alsace. Seventy-eight Acadians remained in 1767, and most or all had left Martinique for
Quebec or
Louisiana by 1800. The commune was founded in 1888, following the division of
Saint-Pierre. ==Population==