History, News and Stories of Annapolis Royal, Annapolis, Nova Scotia, Canada

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• 1605 - Samuel de Champlain establishes the first successful New France Colony at Port Royal
  1604, June 20 - Pierre de Monts and Samuel de Champlain reach the Annapolis Basin; Champlain names the whole area Port Royal. The following year, 1605, the French will settle here. De Poutrincourt requests this land for his retirement, a request de Monts will grant.
  
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• Acadian Passport: Port Royal National Historic Site
  
• 1610 - June 24 - Micmac chief Membertou and 20 family members baptized by Jesse La Fleche at Port Royal; First Roman Catholic missionary in Canada; First Christian converts in New France
  
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• 1613 Port Royal looted and burned by pirate Captain Argyle from Virginia.
  
  
• 1629 July three ships with Scotish settlers arrive at Port Royal.
  
  
• 1631 - July 10 - King Charles I [England] orders William Alexander to give Port Royal back to the French and destroy the fort built by his son
  Scots are forced to abandon their settlement at Port Royal.
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• 1635 - Port Royal moved across the river.
  
  
• 1643 Fort Anne built at new Port Royal site.
  
  
• 1650 - English 'Brawn'
  Acadia (Nova Scotia) recipes called for English ‘Brawn’. Brawn was originally for the flesh of the pigs head that has been boiled, chopped and molded. In Acadia (Nova Scotia) it meant a veal-shank and pork-hock stew made by boiling the meat off the bones in seasoned water. The stock from that water ... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1654 Captain Sedwidge with Orders from Oliver Cromwell, lord protector of England, captures Port Royal.
  
  
• 1654 - Acadia
  The Acadian children born between 1654 and 1670 had little or no knowledge of France. Unlike New France, they were not governed by the religious, nor the seigniorial system or an Intendant. Seigneuries were granted at Port Royal, Beaubassin and along the St. John River, but had no influence on... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1658 - The population of Port Royal, Acadia is no more than 250 souls.
  
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• 1667 - Treaty of Breda - Acadia is given back to France
  The Treaty of Breda restored Acadia to France. Paris largely ignored Acadia, and Quebec's war with the Iroquois left little time for Acadia concerns. The colonists of Port Royal expanded to establish colonies at Grand Pre, Piziquid (Windsor, Acadia (Nova Scotia), Cobequid (Truro, Acadia (Nova... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1670 - Acadia
  The French decision to not send colonists to Canada in 1666 had a profound impact on Canada as Acadia had a population of 400 whereas Massachusetts had a population of 40,000.
  
  Acadia had less than 500 European Settlers after nearly 3/ 4 century of settlement. Civil war and conflicts with the... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1690 - Port Royal is captured by British forces led by Phipps.
  
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• 1695 - Fort Anne, (1695-1708) (Annapolls, Acadia ( Nova Scotia)) is established.
  
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• 1699 - A crop failure at Port Royal, Acadia caused extensive suffering in the colony.
  
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• 1704 - Attacked
  June 20: Benjamin Church (1639-1718), with 700 men, three warships and fourteen transports, burned Les Mines (Grand Pre), took Cobequid (Truro) and Piziquid (Pigiguit), and wasted Beaubassin, Acadia. They laid siege to Port Royal but they refused to surrender, and the English (speaking people)... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1706 - English Repelled
  John March of Newbury received a commission to take Fort Royal in Acadia. One thousand and seventy six English, with four hundred and fifty sailors, are under his command. Fort Royal, defended by Governor Subercase with Intendant de Goutin and three hundred French, repelled the English (speaking... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1707 Port Royal attacked twice by New England.
  
  
• 1710 - British Capture Port Royal, Rename Fort Anne
  The Acadian community of Port Royal is captured by Francis Nickolson for the British and renamed it Fort Anne, and the community, Annapolis Royal. Daniel d'Auger de Subercase (1661-1732), with less than 300 men, capitulated to a landed force of 2,000 English.
  
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• 1754 - French and Indian War at Port Royal
  
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• 1755 - Grand Derangement
  The "Grand Derangement" the forced deportation of Acadians is considered the beginning of the Cajun culture.
  
  Of the 8 to 10 thousand Acadians deported, 3/ 4 arrived in the American colonies or were incarcerated in Halifax or London. The rest hid in the woods of New Brunswick, or walked to... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1756 - Virginia Rejects Acadians
  About 1,200 Acadians were sent to Virginia but were never let off the ships, because they had not been expected and they were not wanted. They sat on the beaches for six months. Having arrived in the fall of 1755, they were sent to England in the spring of 1756. Once in England, they were dispersed ... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1763 - Nova Scotia
  The English land cleared about 11,000 French Acadians from Nova Scotia during the period of 1755 to 1763, to make room for English and Scottish settlers as those Acadians held the best land. The Acadians held in England are shipped to France and France reports 2,400 are on welfare. St. Milo,... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1764 - Acadians Return to Nova Scotia
  The Acadians were finally allowed to return to Nova Scotia in 1764. However, the fertile lands that once were theirs were now occupied by English settlers. Since the British would not allow the Acadians to form large settlements, they gradually settled along the various remote coastal regions of... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1835 - Church of St. Louis established at Annapolis Royal
  
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• 1873
  ANNAPOLIS, formerly called PORT ROYAL, a seaport town of Nova Scotia, at the mouth of the River Annapolis, a fine inlet of the Bay of Fundy, 129 miles W. of Halifax. It is the most ancient settlement in this part of North America, having been founded in l604 by De Monts, a Frenchman. Subsequently,... Read MORE...
  
  
•   1880 - FIRE RECORD. Nova Scotia Town in Flames.
  HALIFAX, N. S., August 3 .- The upper end of the town of Annapolis is in flames, extending from J. B. Wilson's to R. S. Hardwick's and back to No. 10 Victoria street. The wardens have telegraphed to Kentville for a train to bring a fire engine from Bridgetown.
  
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• 1895 - Annapolis (Port Royal)
  Annapolis, formerly Port Royal, a port of entry of Nova Scotia, at the mouth of the river Annapolis, a fine inlet of the Bay of Fundy, 129 miles W. of Halifax. It is the most ancient settlement in this part of North America, having been founded in 1604 by De Monts, a Frenchman. In the time of Queen ... Read MORE...
  
  
• 1916
  Annapolis, or Annapolis Royal, formerly Port Royal, a port of entry of Nova Scotia, at the mouth of the river Annapolis, a fine inlet of the Bay of Fundy, 129 mile; by rail W. of Halifax. It is the most ancient European settlement in this part of North America, having been founded in 1604 by De... Read MORE...
  
  
• Annapolis Royal
  Annapolis Royal, NS, incorporated as a town in 1893, population 481 (2011c), 444 (2006c). The Town of Annapolis Royal is located on the south side of the Annapolis River, about 10 km from its mouth near the western shore of Nova Scotia. The entire basin was named Port-Royal by Samuel de Champlain... Read MORE...
  
  
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