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    Isle Saint-Jean was a French colony in North America that existed from 1713 to 1763 on what is today Prince Edward Island as part of the wider colony...
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    mainland (now New Brunswick), and the islands (Cape Breton Island and Isle Saint-Jean) remained in French hands. Over the next forty-five years the Acadians...
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    Scotia border), Isle Saint-Jean (now Prince Edward Island) and Île-Royale (now Cape Breton Island). The leader of the Exodus was Father Jean-Louis Le Loutre...
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    negotiators were unable to recover Acadia, although they were able to retain Isle Saint-Jean (present-day Prince Edward Island) and Île Royale, (present day Cape...
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    (Newfoundland) – (1610–1713) Île Royale (Cape Breton)—(1713–1763) Isle Saint-Jean (P.E.I.) – (1713–1763) Pays d'en Haut (1639–1763) Illinois Country...
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    of Paris on 10 February 1763, by which France gave up Île Royale, Isle Saint-Jean, Acadia and Canada, the Great Lakes region and the left bank of the...
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  • Buot moved in turn to the Port. The reason for Acadian emigration to Isle Saint-Jean at that time, was caused by the difficulty that Acadians faced to get...
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    Josèphe Laborie (born Saint-Domingue, 1769). His father was Jean Barré de Saint-Venant, (1737–1810), a colonial officer of the Isle of Saint-Domingue (later...
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    Fort Saint-Louis (Chambly). In 1666, Fort Saint-Jean and the farthest south Fort Sainte Anne on Isle La Motte were added. The fort included Saint Anne's...
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    River (Natchitoches Parish), and Bayou Brevelle (named after Jean Baptiste Brevel). Isle Brevelle was considered "the richest cotton-growing portion of...
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  • → Rondônia (1946) Rio Branco → Roraima (1946) Acadia → Nova Scotia Isle Saint-Jean → Prince Edward Island Lower Canada → Canada West → Ontario Newfoundland...
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    established their base on the Strait of Belle Isle and worked closely with the Iroquois in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. In 1579 the English government closed...
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    racing driver Saint-Malo is twinned with: Port-Louis, Mauritius (1999) Gaspé, Quebec (2009) Saint-Malo, Quebec St. Malo, Manitoba Cowes, Isle of Wight, United...
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  • ISBN 0807137138. "Fort Saint Jean Baptiste State Historic Site". National Park Service. Retrieved 31 March 2024. Dowdy, Verdis (5 October 1975). "Isle Brevelle and...
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    their importance for the fisheries. Holland arrived in October 1764 on Isle Saint-Jean (now Prince Edward Island)), whose territory was ceded to Britain under...
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    Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, in the Canadian province of Quebec. The present town of Alma was formed in 1962 from the merging of four villages: Isle-Maligne,...
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  • district), a federal riding in Quebec from 1867 to 1892 St. Johns, now called Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec St. Johns Point, County Donegal, a headland and...
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    Isle-aux-Grues (French for "island of cranes") is an island situated on the Saint Lawrence River, in the municipality of Saint-Antoine-de-l'Isle-aux-Grues...
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  • Nouveau Commerçant, a ship involved in the trade between Louisbourg and Isle Saint-Jean and supplied the garrison at Louisbourg with firewood. In 1737, with...
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    Melodies, a collection of ancient airs from the Isle of Man, in the British Library, are not by Saint-Georges. Recueil de pieces pour forte piano et violon...
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    Mi'kmaq from Ile St. Jean and the Miramachi. Boishebert arrived in June with 70 more Acadia militia members from Isle Saint-Jean and 60 Mi'kmaq militia...
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  • more than half the population of Les Mines had migrated to Isle Saint-Jean (P.E.I.) and Isle Royale (Cap Breton). "Les Mines", Acadian Genealogy and History...
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    Jean-Vincent d'Abbadie, Baron de Saint-Castin (1652–1707) was a French military officer serving in Acadia and an Abenaki chief. He is the father of two...
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    Creation of the Municipality of Saint-Jean-Baptiste-de-l’Isle-Verte from territories taken from the Municipality of Isle-Verte. Creation of the Municipality...
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  • born on 23 August 1755 in Saint-Pierre, Réunion and died on 8 February 1836 in Port-Louis (Mauritius). Lislet was the son of Jean-Baptiste Geoffroy, a white...
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    Avalon (redirect from The Isle of Avalon)
    meaning the "Isle of Avallon" in Latin. In his later Vita Merlini ("The Life of Merlin", c. 1150), he calls it Insula Pomorum, the "Isle of Fruit Trees"...
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    and Jean, from Saint-Domingue to New Orleans in the 1780s. In approximately 1784, his mother married Pedro Aubry, a New Orleans merchant, keeping Jean with...
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  • Saint-Laurent de Paris on 1 September 1768. Through that union the two brothers benefitted from royal largesse. Born in Lévignac, Haute-Garonne, Jean-Baptiste...
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    Vincent Ogé, Jean-Baptiste Chavannes, and the ex-governor of Saint-Domingue Guillaume de Bellecombe, incited several revolts to take control of Saint-Domingue...
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  • Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Man; the couple had no children.[citation needed] Upon the death of her brother, Adrian, in 1970, Dame Jean became her father's...
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