I8 HISTORICAL SKETCH 0F PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND

four bastions and be of strength to command the basin. The cannon were chiefly of light calibre, and the strength of the garrison with cannoniers less than eighty rank and file.

Quite a Town~as founded by Count St. Pierre—had now sprung into existence, the site of which may be seen near Warren Farm to the southwest of the harbor.

But, to return to the Province of Nova Scotia, we find that the Hon. Edward Cornwallis on being appointed Governor in 1749, arrived there during the summer of that year with 2,500 emigrants, and founded the Town of Halifax as if by magic. The Provincial Government was removed there from Annapolis, —formerly Port R0yal——-and soon Halifax became a military station of vast importance to the British Crown. Meanwhile, Louisburg, during this period of peace, constructed additional works to such an extent that her batteries now mounted two hundred and thirty-six pieces of ordnance of heavy calibre, and was next in military strength to Quebec, the strongest and most important fortress in America.

Although this peace lasted for seven years, there were several causes which kept up an ill~feeling between the two countries, especially in their colonies in America; and when at length a fresh war broke out in I7 5 5, it not only resulted in the second overthrow of Louisburg, but likewise the loss to the French nation of all her authority over the vast territory of New France,——although the first of the campaign opened most dis- astrous to the British arms.

But the event which gives this year a sad preeminence, was the deportation of a neighboring people from their domestic hearths, and the privations they endured when driven among strangers, for they appeal to our common humanity, and seem at the first view of the case a grievous wrong, that such an occurrence as the expulsion of the Acadians from the land of their childhood had ever taken place, and that its authors could not be justified in so vile and gross an act.

The treaty of Utrecht, by which Acadia was given to England, in its fourteenth article, stipulated “that the subjects of the King of France may have liberty to remove themselves within a year with all their movable effects ; but those who are willing to remain and be subjects of Great Britian were to enjoy the