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century to t ho Atlantic jji-ovinces and the country in the valley of the 

 St. Lawrence and n;reat lakes.' 



VII- Scotch Settlement. — The tirst attempt to colonize Nova Scotia 

 with Scotch settlers was made by Sir William Alexander under the royal 

 charter of 1()21. His son took out in 1628 about seventy of his country- 

 men, whom he ])laccd on the north-western or Granville side of the basin of 

 Port Eoyal, under the protection of a fort which he erected on the site 

 of the old French corn-lields. Nothiui^ came of the experiment, as Nova 



A BADGE OF THE BARONETS OF NOVA SCOTIA. 



Scotia was again ceeded to the French under the treaty of St. Germain- 

 en-Laye, in 1732, and the Scotch fort was abandoned. A number of the 

 settleiT? had died durinij^ their short residence in the country and the 

 remnant went to New England or returned to Scotland. ' The only 

 memorials that remain of this unsuccessful effort to found a permanent 

 Scotch settlement in Acadia are the present name of the province and the 

 title which was established by the king in 1625 to assist Alexander's plan 



1 A fairly accurate list of the principal Loyalists who settled in the province of 

 Nova Scotia, will be found in " Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American 

 Revolution, with an Historical Es.say, by Lorenzo Sabine. In two volumes. 

 Boston Ed. of 1864." A list of Boston Loyalists, who migrated to England and her 

 colonies, can be also seen in the third volume, (pp. 175-180) of " The Memorial History 

 of Boston, edited by Justin Winsor, Boston, IKSl." See also an article by the i)resent 

 writer on "The Loyalists of the American Revolution" in the Quartcfl!/ licricw, 

 October, 1808. Also an article by the same in Thr Canadian Magazine, April, 18118. 



Mr. George Johnson, the able Dominion Statistician, in a letter to the author, 

 estimates that the number of the descendants of the Loyalists reached, in 1891, over 

 five hundred thou.sand in the Maritime provinces, and over seven hundred thousand 

 for all Canada. See " Trans, of the U. E. Loyalists' Association of Ontario," for 

 18i)r), pp. Ti-li. 



'^ See a valuable paper on Sir W. Alexander's experiment by Dr. Patterson in the 

 Trans. Roy. Soc. Can. vol. X., Sec. 2. Also, sn])ra, j). 12», where allusion is made to 

 a probable descendant of one of the Scotch settlers who remained in Nova Scotia. 



