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Little Dutch (Deutsch) Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia The Foreign Protestants were a group of non-British Protestant immigrants to Nova Scotia , primarily originating from France and Germany. They largely settled in Halifax at Gottingen Street (named after the German town of Göttingen ) and Dutch Village Road as well as Lunenburg .
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Kenneth Leslie (1892–1974) was a Canadian poet and songwriter, and an influential political activist in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. He was the founder and editor of The Protestant Digest (later The Protestant), which had a peak circulation of over 50,000 subscribers. [1]
Members of some prominent Windsor and Nova Scotian families are buried in the Old Parish Burying Ground including: Isaac DesChamps, the fourth Chief Justice of Nova Scotia (1785-1788), Winckworth Tonge, grandson of one of the original land grantees, and Susanna Francklin, wife of Lieutenant Governor Michael Francklin who donated the land for ...
The Protestant settlers were fed up with not receiving promised farmland and the treatment they'd received at the hands of the British. In mid-December 1753, within six months of their arrival at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, the new settlers rebelled against the British, supported by Father Jean-Louis Le Loutre.
The Expulsion of the Acadians [b] was the forced removal [c] of inhabitants of the North American region historically known as Acadia between 1755 and 1764 by Great Britain.It included the modern Canadian Maritime provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, along with part of the US state of Maine.
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The colony's jurisdiction changed during this time. Nova Scotia was granted a supreme court in 1754 with the appointment of Jonathan Belcher and a Legislative Assembly in 1758. In 1763 Cape Breton Island became part of Nova Scotia. In 1769, St. John's Island (now Prince Edward Island) became a separate colony.