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The Tantramar, and the Acadian settlements there, became ground zero for the nine-year conflict that became the Seven Years ' War ( or the French and Indian War ).
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Tantramar and Acadian
Sackville history ( and that of the Tantramar Region ) can be divided into a number of periods reflecting settlement patterns in the area, and then the evolution of the community: Mi ' kmaq or pre-European, Acadian, Planter and Yorkshire, and United Empire Loyalists, followed by the so-called Age of Sail, the foundry period and finally contemporary Sackville.
French settlement first began in the Maritimes in 1604, but it was not until the early eighteenth century that Acadian settlement reached the Tantramar.
The name Tantramar is derived from the Acadian French tintamarre, meaning ' din ' or ' racket ', a reference to the noisy flocks of birds which feed there.
Tantramar and there
Fishing and tourism are important industries along the Northumberland Strait shore while there is some mixed farming in the Petitcodiac River Valley and in the Tantramar Marsh region.
Tantramar and became
The Miramichi River valley initially became a refuge for Acadians fleeing the Great Upheaval in the Annapolis Valley, Tantramar Marshes and Ile-Saint-Jean following the Seven Years ' War, however these families were soon forced to move to more isolated coastal areas to the northeast.
Tantramar and for
It had been intended that the original route for the line would run north across the Tantramar Marshes from Fort Beauséjour to what is currently Middle Sackville and then on through the lowlands to Scoudouc and Moncton.
During Little's time as leader, the party won its first seat ever in Tantramar in the 1982 New Brunswick election, and ran a full slate of candidates for the first time in the 1987 campaign.
In a world where food additives were not yet being used, iodine-rich hay made the Tantramar a valuable source for healthy, high-quality fodder.
Tantramar is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, Canada.
She was elected member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick for Tantramar in the 1987 General Election and served until 1997.
Hargrove attempted to re-enter the House in a 1997 by-election in Tantramar, but finished a distant fourth of four candidates, getting only 2. 5 % of the vote, compared to 10 % for the CoR candidate two years earlier.
Tantramar and War
With the outbreak of the American War of Independence in 1775, some in the Tantramar desired to join forces with the patriots and make Nova Scotia the fourteenth state of a new republic.
Early in the American Revolutionary War, in October and November 1776 local guerrilla and colonial American forces led by Jonathan Eddy and John Allan attempted to take over Fort Cumberland and the Tantramar region.
Tantramar and French
The French built Fort Beauséjour on a ridge overlooking the Cumberland Basin and the Tantramar marshes on what is today Aulac Ridge.
A key surface transportation route since the 17th century, the Isthmus of Chignecto was crossed by French and later British military roads to the Tantramar Marshes and along the strategic ridges.
Acadian and settlements
Acadian settlements had primarily agrarian economies, although there were many early examples of Acadian fishing settlements in southwestern Nova Scotia and in Île-Royale, as well as along the south and west coasts of Newfoundland, the Gaspé Peninsula, and the present-day Côte-Nord region of Quebec.
In 1654, New England raiders attacked Acadian settlements on the Annapolis Basin, starting a period of uncertainty for Acadians throughout the English constitutional crises under Oliver Cromwell, and only being properly resolved under the Treaty of Breda in 1667 when France's claim to the region was reaffirmed.
While these were basically renamed Dutch core settlements, they were quickly converted to English purposes, while the Dutch remained within the colony, as opposed to later practice of the Acadian Expulsion.
) Approximately seventy-five years after Port Royal was founded, Acadians migrated from the capital and established what would become the other major Acadian settlements before the Expulsion of the Acadians: Grand Pré, Chignecto, Cobequid ( present-day Truro, Nova Scotia ) and Pisiguit ( present-day Windsor, Nova Scotia ).
To guard against Mi ' kmaq, Acadian and French attacks on the new Protestant settlements, British fortifications were erected in Halifax ( 1749 ), Dartmouth ( 1750 ), Bedford ( Fort Sackville ) ( 1751 ), Lunenburg ( 1753 ) and Lawrencetown ( 1754 ).
To guard against Mi ' kmaq, Acadian, and French attacks on the new Protestant settlements, British fortifications were erected in Halifax ( 1749 ), Dartmouth ( 1750 ), Bedford ( Fort Sackville ) ( 1749 ), Dartmouth ( 1750 ), Lunenburg ( 1753 ) and Lawrencetown ( 1754 ).
Poitou is believed to be the region of origin of most of the Acadian and Cajun populations of North America ( settlements founded in New Brunswick, Louisiana, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, the Gaspe Peninsula of Quebec, Maine and Newfoundland ).
* Belle Cote, a small picturesque fishing village located at the mouth of the Margaree River where it flows into the Gulf of St Lawrence, marks the traditional boundary of the Scottish settlements to the south and the Acadian villages to the north that are located on the western side of Cape Breton Island.
Colonel Robert Monckton led a force of 1150 British soldiers to destroy the Acadian settlements along the banks of the St. John River until they reached the largest village of Sainte-Anne des Pays-Bas ( Fredericton, New Brunswick ) in February 1759.
The St. John River Campaign occurred during the French and Indian War when Colonel Robert Monckton led a force of 1150 British soldiers to destroy the Acadian settlements on the banks of the St. John River until they reached the largest village of Ste Anne ’ s Point ( present day Fredericton, New Brunswick ) in February 1759.
As such, he would name the basin " Port-Royal ", the Royal Port ; this was, for many years, the name of both the body of water, and the subsequent French and Acadian settlements in that region.
) Approximately seventy-five years after Port-Royal was founded, Acadians spread out from the capital to found the other major Acadian settlements established before the Expulsion of the Acadians: Grand Pré, Chignecto, Cobequid and Pisiguit.
To guard against Mi ' kmaq, Acadian and French attacks on the new Protestant settlements, British fortifications were erected in Halifax ( 1749 ), Bedford ( Fort Sackville ) ( 1749 ), Dartmouth ( 1750 ), Lunenburg ( 1753 ) and Lawrencetown ( 1754 ).
Following the siege of Fortress Louisbourg in 1758, British forces on their way to Quebec City attacked French settlements on Ile-Saint-Jean ( present-day Prince Edward Island ) and continued along the coast, where they entered the lower Miramichi River valley and destroyed and scattered the small Acadian settlements.
Now, few Acadians live there, though there are several Acadian settlements on the opposite bank of the Petitcodiac River, such as Pre d ' en Haut, New Brunswick.
After the capture of Fort Beausejour during the Seven Years War, in an attempt to gain control over the region, the British sent a punitive expedition consisting of two companies of British colonial troops into the Petitcodiac River Valley to destroy the Acadian settlements located there.
Over the course of the next several months, the deportation effort spread to other French settlements on the Bay of Fundy and ultimately over 7, 000 Acadian men, women and children were forced from their homes.
Acadian and there
During the 17th Century there was the Acadian Civil War ( 1640-45 ).
During King William's War, there was the naval Action of July 14, 1696 off Saint John, New Brunswick and Major Benjamin Church arrived by sea from Boston and raided various Acadian communities around the Bay ( See Raid on Chignecto ( 1696 )).
Though early settlers included French, Acadian, German, Danish and Irish, the town's culture and architecture is heavily influenced by the unusually large numbers of English that chose to settle there after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.
With the founding of both Halifax ( 1749 ) and Fort Edward, there was an Acadian Exodus that involved an emigration of most of the Acadians from the Municipality of East Hants ( 1750 ) and from West Hants ( Pisiguit ) as well.
Since there was no linguistic contact with France from the late eighteenth century until the twentieth century, Acadian French retained features that died out during the French standardization efforts of the nineteenth century.
During the early years, there were 8 Acadian and Mi ' kmaq raids on the new British settlement, such as the Raid on Dartmouth ( 1751 ).
During the French and Indian War ( which included the Expulsion of the Acadians ), there were nine Native and Acadian ( Catholic ) raids against the protestant settlers on the Lunenburg Peninsula.
From 1749 – 55, there was massive Acadian migration out of British-occupied mainland Nova Scotia and into French-occupied Ile Saint-Jean ( Prince Edward Island ), Ile Royale ( Cape Breton ) and present-day New Brunswick.
This was Boishébert ’ s last Acadian expedition ; from there he and the Acadians went to Quebec and fought in the Battle of Quebec ( 1759 ).
In total there were 42 Acadian buildings burned.
Outside of Portland, there are pockets of people who keep the traditional musical styles of their ancestors, including the Swedish music of Stockholm and New Sweden, the French-Maine community across the state, especially in Upper St. John Valley, home to the Acadian Festival, and the ethnic Russian music of the Kennebec River community in Richmond, Maine.
In other areas this also is the result of Gaelic influences where the sound " th " does not exist in the language and in some communities there is a notable mixture of both the Gaelic and French Acadian accents, particularly in the Richmond County area.
As a result there continued to be tension on the frontier, and disputes over fishing grounds and the use of Acadian territory by New Englanders for drying fish continued.
During the French and Indian War ( which included the Expulsion of the Acadians ), there were nine Native and Acadian ( Catholic ) raids against the protestant settlers on the Lunenburg Peninsula.
Currently, there is limited support for this idea, and drawing the borders of a separate Acadian province would be difficult, as Acadians are dispersed throughout the province as well as in smaller numbers in Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, Quebec's Magdalen Islands and the U. S. state of Maine.
Both formed at approximately the same time, and under similar conditions: to the north of the Acadian Mountains were the Caledonian Mountains, and a similar region of marsh and river delta formed there.
It is currently believed that there were two main displacement events along the Highland Boundary Fault: the Acadian, and the post-Acadian.
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