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Title: A history of Canada and of the other British provinces of North America
Year: 1866 (1860s)
Authors: Hodgins, J. George (John George), 1821-1912
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Publisher: Montreal : J. Lovell
Contributing Library: The University of Western Ontario, Western Archives
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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stined to become important por^^ons of the British Empire. CHAPTER XXVI. L Generallntroductory Sketch of the Eastern ProvincesPrincipal Subjects of tills Chapter.Fiesent Extent and Condition of the Eastern Provinces.1. Acadie divided into two Provinces.—What are at presentthe -Provinces of Nova Scotia (including Cape Breton) andNew Brunswick (with part of the State of Maine), was formerlythat outlying portion of New France which was known asAcadie. The boundaries and extent of these outskirts of NewFrance were, to a late date in colonial history, left indefinite;and many a fierce dispute, ending in deadly strife, took placein the efibrts which were made by the rival French and Eng-lish colonists to define these boundaries. Although nomi- QuESTioNB,—Point out on the map the several Maritime Provinces.What is their area and population? Name the other B. N. A. Possessions,(jive the principal subjects of Chapter xxvi. What is said of Acadie? Chap. XXVI.) OP BRITISH NORTH AMERICA.^ 231
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QyiST;oss.—Point out the relative position of each of the B. N. A. Provinog?, 232 THE EASTERN PROVINCES. (Past T nally under French dominion, Acadie was, for a long tim^after its discovery, too vast a wilderness to be of any prac-tical value either as a place of colonization or of trade,except at some points on the sea-coast. These places were,however, selected for settlement with the usual sagacity of theearly French explorers; and they are to this day importantcentral points of trade and commerce in the respective pro-vinces. As the trading-posts of France and England in thoseeariy times gradually expanded themselves into colonial settlements, particular places in these settlements, often distantfrom each other, were selected either for purposes of trade orfor mihtary objects. Thus Port Royal (Annapolis), and SteCroix,—on the opposite shores of la bale Franjaise (Fundy),with undefined boundaries running between them,—from beingoriginally in the same French colony of Acadie, ca

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