Nova Scotia
Most children in North America learn at an early age that the "Thirteen Colonies" revolted in 1775 and after 8 long hard years won their independence with the Treaty of Paris in 1783. What most of us weren't taught is that the British actually founded 14 colonies on the Atlantic coastline of North America.
If you went to school in the United States
you most likely were taught the 13 colonies. 12 were founded in the 1600's, in order of settlement they are
Virginia in 1607,
Massachusetts in 1620,
New Hampshire in 1623,
New York in 1624,
Connecticut in 1633,
Maryland in 1634,
Rhode Island in 1636,
Delaware in 1638,
Pennsylvania in 1643,
North Carolina in 1653,
New Jersey in 1660,
and South Carolina in 1670.
The 13th colony, Georgia, was not settled until 1733, a gap of 63 years! The 14th and last was Halifax, Nova Scotia founded in 1749, 16 years later still. Georgia was settled south of the southernmost colony before it, South Carolina, and Nova Scotia was at the opposite extreme, north of Maine, which until 1820 was part of Massachusetts colony.
Officially Nova Scotia had been a colony...
from the time of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, and had a tiny garrison and a Governor in Annapolis Royal, a small settlement on the Bay of Fundy, but the land all around the fort was occupied by French settlers who had come to Nova Scotia before the war which left it in British hands.
As early as 1718 two groups wished to found a new colony
on the eastern shore of Nova Scotia, but both asked for the right to intercept the Yankee fishing fleets off that cost and charge them fees for the fishing rights. This enraged the New England colonies and they sent a Mr. Dummer to London where he protested long and loud and got the colonial grants turned down.
2007-06-29 12:39:24
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