Fort Point 1632
Isaac de Razilly 1587 – 1635
Photographs of Monument
LaHave Lunenburg County Nova Scotia
GPS location: 44°17’18″N 64°21’05″W
Google Map: Fort Point LaHave historic site
Photographed on 30 April 2003
Fort Point plaque, installed 1929
Photographed on 30 April 2003
Photographed on 10 July 2003
Photographed on 10 July 2003
Photographed on 10 July 2003
Cannon manufactured for George III Rex
(King George III reigned 1760-1820)
Photographed on 10 July 2003
Other Old Cannons in Nova Scotia
What’s the big deal about cannons?
Nowadays, cannon and other forms of artillery from the 1700s and 1800s are nothing more than quaint noise-makers. We see them only in the movies and onTV, or at occasional demonstrations at historic sites. Intheir day, cannons were the most powerful, far-reaching and fearsome weaponsavailable…
RF Razilly’s fort appears on the MitchellMap(1755)
Fort LaHave National Historic Site of Canada
http://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/lhn-nhs/det_E.asp?site_id=0305&name=Fort+LaHave
Chapter 7: The De Razilly Settlement
http://www.blupete.com/Hist/NovaScotiaBk1/Part1/Ch07.htm
This Monument sits in the grounds of the Fort Point Museum,
LaHave. The stone cairn is about four metres high…
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nslssgs/monftpt.htm
Fort Point Museum Lunenburg County Historical Society
http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/lchs-fortpoint/
Isaac de Razilly Digital Collections archive
http://epe.lac-bac.gc.ca/100/205/301/ic/cdc/acadian/
english/eb41755/lords/razilly/razilly.htm
Isaac de Razilly becomes governor of Acadie
by Jim Bradshaw
Lafayette, Louisiana, Daily Advertiser, 23 February 1999
http://www.lft.k12.la.us/chs/la_studies/ParishSeries/Acadie/IsaacDeRazilly.htm
chs Carencro High School
lft Lafayette Parish School System
Cultures of Acadiana This site is a result of ongoing study by the
Louisiana Studies (Sociology) classes of Carencro High School
of the cultures of Acadiana. Acadiana is a 13 parish
(Note to non-Louisianians: our parishes are the same things
as your counties) area in south Louisiana where French exiles
from Nova Scotia (known to them as Acadia) settled after their
deportation by the British in 1755. The descendents of those exiles
are now known as Cajuns (a variation of the name “Acadians”).
The town of Carencro developed from one of the earliest Cajun
settlements and is located immediately north of the city of Lafayette…
http://www.carencrohighschool.org/la_studies/
Our French Heritage: Acadie “History of Acadiana,”
32 articles about the settlement of Acadie in French Canada
The Lafayette, Louisiana, Daily Advertiser, 23 February 1999
http://www.carencrohighschool.org/la_studies/ParishSeries/Acadie/AcadieArticles.htm
Isaac de Razilly
http://www.doucetfamily.org/heritage/Razilly.htm
Fort Point Settlement equipped with 25 cannons
http://www.multiculturaltrails.ca/level_3/number181.html
Acadia (Nova Scotia): 1632 to 1653
http://www.acadian-cajun.com/acadia1.htm
The First Permanent French Settlement in the LaHave area: 1632
Riverport Review, June 2001
http://www.riverport.org/review/Review_June-2001.pdf
1632: The Sail from Le Havre to La Heve, Arsenault Account
http://www.terriau.org/arsenaul.htm
1632: The Sail from Le Havre to La Heve, Lanctot Account
http://www.terriau.org/lanctot.htm
Isaac de Razilly: The Resurgence of Acadia, 1632
http://creations.acadie.net/eng/historique/3.html
Acadian History: The Beginning by Linda W. Jones
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/lwjones/acadhist.htm
An Acadian Introduction
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Acres/2162/intro.htm
Charles de Menou d’Aulnay
In July 1632, I landed at LeHave with my cousin, Isaac de Razilly…
http://www.francoplanete.net/tricentenaire/pressen2cVIII.htm
Germain Doucet dit Laverdure came to Acadia
in 1632 with Isaac de Razilly…
http://www.shocking.com/~gregbard/genealogy/not06533.shtml
Germain Doucet, Sieur de Laverdure
Lafayette Daily Advertiser, 10August 1997
http://www.doucetfamily.org/genealogy/Bio.htm
Brief Biographies
Chapter 8: The Battling Barons of Acadia by Peter Landry
Razilly, d’Aulnay, La Tour, Denys…
http://www.blupete.com/Hist/NovaScotiaBk1/Part1/Ch08.htm
Issac de Razilly by Peter Landry
http://www.blupete.com/Hist/BiosNS/1600-00/Razilly.htm
Issac de Razilly Dictionary of Canadian Biography
http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=34619
Charles de Menou d’Aulnay by Peter Landry
http://www.blupete.com/Hist/BiosNS/1600-00/Aulnay.htm
Charles de Menou d’Aulnay Dictionary of Canadian Biography
http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=34532
Nicholas Denys by Peter landry
http://www.blupete.com/Hist/BiosNS/1600-00/Denys.htm
Nicolas Denys Dictionary of Canadian Biography
http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=34290
Charles Biencourt de Saint-Just by Peter Landry
http://www.blupete.com/Hist/BiosNS/1600-00/Biencourt.htm
Jean de Biencourt, Seigneur de Poutrincourt by Peter Landry
http://www.blupete.com/Hist/BiosNS/1600-00/Poutrincourt.htm
Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt Dictionary of Canadian Biography
http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=34184
Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt et de Saint-Just by Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_de_Biencourt_de_Poutrincourt_et_de_Saint-Just
Pierre Du Gua de Monts by Peter Landry
http://www.blupete.com/Hist/BiosNS/1600-00/Monts.htm
Pierre Du Gua de Monts Dictionary of Canadian Biography
http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=34320
Claude de Saint-Etienne de la Tour (c.1570-c.1636) Dictionary of Canadian Biography
http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=34641
Charles La Tour (1595-c.1665) by Peter Landry
http://www.blupete.com/Hist/BiosNS/1600-00/LaTour.htm
Charles de Saint-Etienne de la Tour (1593-1666) Dictionary of Canadian Biography
http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=34640
Charles de Saint-Etienne de la Tour (c.1665-1731) Dictionary of Canadian Biography
http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=35212
Agathe de Saint-Etienne de la Tour (1690-c.1743) Dictionary of Canadian Biography
a.k.a. Agathe Bradstreet, Agathe Campbell
http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=35211
Origin of the name Acadia
http://www.cajunculture.com/Places/acadia.htm
What territory did Acadia include?
Sebastian Rale: A Maine Tragedy of the Eighteenth Century
by John Francis Sprague, Androscoggin Historical Society, 1906
http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/me/somerset/sprague/rale/rale3.txt
Money settles diplomatic dispute over Acadie’s ownership by Jim Bradshaw
Lafayette Daily Advertiser, 23 February 1999
http://www.carencrohighschool.org/la_studies/ParishSeries/Acadie/MoneySettles.htm
A Merged History: Canada and The United States, 1600-1699 by Bill Jones
http://www.explorenorth.com/library/history/bl-bjones3-16.htm
Charles de La Tour confirmed as governor of Acadia
Charles de Latour was named Governor of Acadia
in Letters Patent issued by King Louis XIV in February 1651
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/bulletin/015017-9809-03-e.html
Saint-Germain-en-Laye treaty signed on 29 March 1632
http://www.lafete.org/new/acadia/timeE/1632.htm
