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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Table of Contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS 8
- AUTHOR'S NOTES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 9
- PREFACE 11
- CHAPTER 1 EARLY EUROPEAN SETTLEMENT AT PORT-ROYAL, 1605–1654 14
- CHAPTER 2 PORT-ROYAL, 1654–1700 38
- CHAPTER 3 PORT-ROYAL: THE FINAL YEARS, 1701–1710 59
- CHAPTER 4 ANNAPOLIS ROYAL: THE TRANSITION YEARS, 1710–1713 99
- CHAPTER 5 ANNAPOLIS ROYAL, 1713–1740 116
- CHAPTER 6 ANNAPOLIS ROYAL AND THE WAR OF THE AUSTRIAN SUCCESSION, 1744–1748 157
- CHAPTER 7 BRITISH SOCIAL LIFE IN ANNAPOLIS ROYAL, 1713–1749 185
- CHAPTER 8 ANNAPOLIS ROYAL: "A PLACE OF NO CONSEQUENCE," 1749–1800 208
- EPILOGUE 246
- APPENDIX A: COLONIAL ADMINISTRATORS IN ACADIA AND NOVA SCOTIA, 1603–1749 248
- APPENDIX B: HOUSEHOLDS IN THE TOWN OF PORT-ROYAL, 1707 248
- ENDNOTES 250
- WORKS CITED 280
- IMAGE SOURCES 291
- INDEX 292
- General 292
- Nominal 292
- A 292
- B 292
- C 293
- D 294
- E 294
- F 295
- G 295
- H 295
- I 296
- J 296
- K 296
- L 296
- M 297
- N 297
- O 297
- P 297
- Q 298
- R 298
- S 298
- T 299
- V 299
- W 299
- Y 299