Quebec History Marianopolis College


Date Published:
July 2005

L’Encyclopédie de l’histoire du Québec / The Quebec History Encyclopedia

 

Fort Beaubassin

 

Fort Beaubassin, a French fortified settlement made in 1672 at the head of Cumberland bay in Nova Scotia by some families from Port Royal. On the approach of the British forces in 1750, all the French settlers moved to Beauséjour. The English then built Fort Lawrence on or near the site of Fort Beaubassin. It was evacuated and dismantled in 1756.

Source  : W. Stewart WALLACE, ed., The Encyclopedia of Canada, Vol. II, Toronto, University Associates of Canada, 1948, 411p., p. 366.

 

 
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