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Lochaber's main town of Fort William was governed as a police burgh with a town council from 1875. [29] A local government district called Lochaber was created in 1930, when Scotland's parish councils were abolished.
Lochaber (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Abar) is a small community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in Antigonish County. [1] Today it is known for its strawberries, and its annual Strawberry Festival. [2] The community was named after Lochaber, a mountainous area of Inverness-shire, in Scotland, from where came the first settlers. [3]
Lochaber is a township municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec, located within the Papineau Regional County Municipality. The township had a population of 415 in the 2016 Canadian Census . History
Fort William [a] is a town in the Lochaber region of the Scottish Highlands, located on the eastern shore of Loch Linnhe in the Highland Council of Scotland.. At the 2011 census, Fort William had a population of 15,757, making it the second-largest settlement both in the Highland council area and in the whole of the Scottish Highlands; only the city of Inverness has a larger population.
Articles related to Lochaber, a name applied to areas of the Scottish Highlands.Historically, it consisted of the parishes of Kilmallie and Kilmonivaig, as they were before being reduced in extent by the creation of Quoad Sacra parishes in the 19th century; this Lochaber extended from the Northern shore of Loch Leven, a district called Nether Lochaber, to beyond Spean Bridge and Roy Bridge ...
Clan Cameron is a West Highland Scottish clan, with one main branch Lochiel, and numerous cadet branches.The Clan Cameron lands are in Lochaber, [7] and within their lands lies Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in the British Isles. [8]
The Battle of Lochaber was fought in 1429, ... One theory holds that the battle of Lochaber was a defining moment in the early history of the Clan Cameron, at that ...
The Treaty of Lochaber was signed in South Carolina on 18 October 1770 by British representative John Stuart and the Cherokee people, fixing the boundary for the western limit of the colonial frontier settlements of Virginia and North Carolina.