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History of Nova Scotia; Acadia, Bk.1, Part 5; Ch. 09, The English Fortify Nova Scotia (1749-54). |
 | | Thus, it was to be, in 1749, that Halifax was to became the principal fortified place of the English in Nova Scotia and was to remain so. |
 | | On September 11th, 1749, Edward How, having returned from the St John River where he treated with the Indians at that place, was sent up the Basin (Bedford Basin, the body of water leading inland from the ocean, north-west of Halifax), there, to construct Fort Sackville. |
 | | In the early part of 1749, the administrator of New France, Galissonnière, was determined, in the wake of the new peace, to flex the power of France by bolstering the French presence in the valleys of the Mississippi and the Ohio; and, of course, on the western edges of Acadia. |
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