Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island). In any event we meet him again in 1752 at Port-Toulouse (St Peters, N.S.), at the home of Joseph Le Blanc, who had been living there for three years

order to incite the Acadian population to emigrate in large numbers to the Chignecto isthmus and Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island). It is noteworthy that from the parishes of these two priests

de Saint-Martin, now established at Petit Degrat (Petit-de-Grat Island), succeeded in breaking the Comte de Saint-Pierre’s fishing monopoly on Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) and neighbouring

immediately posted to the garrison at Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island), commanded by his uncle, Louis Denys de La Ronde. Its function was to protect the colonists sent there by the Comte de Saint

-Jean (Prince Edward Island), secured from Saint-Ovide, now governor of Île Royale, the services of an unenthusiastic La Ronde to assist in the founding of the colony. In November 1721 La Ronde

that island and Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) – was concerned primarily with its resettlement and its development as a base from which to protect the lucrative cod-fishery, guard the gulf of

Edward Island), and Descouts was enlisted as a surgeon for the troops. According to the census of Port-La-Joie (Fort Amherst) in 1734 he was a bachelor and was still practising his profession as a surgeon

Goutin. After the restoration of Île Royale to France in 1749 Goutin was sent to Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) as keeper of the king’s warehouse. He hired Deslongrais as his book-keeper

of Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) for a two-year period. He was expected to use his engineering talents to put the colony’s three settlements in a state of defensive readiness, and to encourage

remainder of Île Royale, as well as Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island), and Baie-Verte and Fort Beauséjour (N.B.); completed many plans and detailed reports on the Louisbourg fortifications; and

Edward Island). François Bigot*, the financial commissary at Louisbourg, reported that to encourage them he had “treated them very well and

-Jean (Prince Edward Island), Desenclaves was left alone with Chauvreulx to carry on his work in English Acadia. Although Abbé de L’Isle-Dieu, the bishop of Quebec’s vicar general in Paris, increased the

in the colonial regular troops, subdelegate of the financial commissary on Île Royale (Cape Breton Island) and Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island); b

Island of St John (Prince Edward Island), in charge of an exploring party. So little appreciated were the distances and the obstacles of the terrain that the party had to be rescued after three days

1730 was considered a nuisance. In 1750 the president of the council of Marine decided to send the old man to Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island), to which the French government hoped to attract

council planned to put settlers from New England on the vacated Acadian lands of the Chignecto isthmus as a barrier between the French in Île Royale and Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) and the

the settlements on Île Royale, Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island), and, until Le Loutre arrived, those in English Acadia (Nova Scotia). His intermittent presence among the Indians made

Edward Island) to receive the wages of their loyalty to the French king in the form of powder and ball, muskets and utensils. But the record of Saint-Ovide’s performance in diplomatic incidents, in

. In 1725 Pain left Nova Scotia and began ministering to the Acadians of Île Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island), undoubtedly as much because of difficulties with Governor Lawrence

Saint-Jean (Prince Edward Island) rather than sign the oath and felt free “to dispose of their goods to the first that would pay for them, whether French or English