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A History of Port Royal / Annapolis Royal 1605-1800

2004

The future site of Annapolis Royal, located several kilometres upriver, consisted of fields where the French grew wheat and other crops until English from the colony of Virginia, to the south, burned the Habitation in 1613, striking the first blow in a 150-year battle between the English and the French in the area. [...] Later chapters deal with the dramatic events of the War of the Austrian Succession and with the social life of the British town, where residents enjoyed lawn bowling, riding, and other popular pastimes of the period. [...] The final chapter concludes with the important events which transformed the town in the second half of the century—the Deportation of the Acadians, the arrival of the New England Planters and Loyalists, and the changed status of the fort. [...] The territory granted to the two companies overlapped with that of de Mons' grant: the London Company grant ran along the Atlantic coast between the 34th and 41st parallels, and the Plymouth Company grant ran between the 38th and 45th parallels. [...] Two early eighteenth-century maps, one French and one English, suggest this location; the first, from 1708, marks the site of the "fort of the Scots or of Poutrincourt" while the second, from 1725, less cautiously identifies "The Ruins of the old Scotch Fort." Oral tradition dating back to the eighteenth century, and traces of what seemed to be the Scots fort, reinforced the idea that the Scots ha
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Authors

Brenda Dunn

Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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CaOOCEL
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
971.6/33
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
22
General Note
Co-published by the Historical Association of Annapolis Royal Maps on lining papers Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
Geographic Area Code
n-cn-ns
ISBN
1551094843 9781459318830
LCCN
F1039.5.A16
LCCN Item number
D86 2004eb
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CaBNVSL
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CaOONL
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1 electronic text (x, 286 p.)
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CaOOCEL
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Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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(CaBNVSL)slc00209733 (OCoLC)244769111 (CaOOCEL)411147
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Mode of access: World Wide Web
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CaOONL

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