Île-Royale (New France)
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Île-Royale was a French colony in North America that existed from 1713 to 1763 as part of the wider colony of Acadia.
Louisbourg on Ïle Royale in 1750
Portrait of Commodore Charles Knowles when Governor of Louisburg, hangs in Portsmouth Athenæum
Acadia
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Acadia was a colony of New France in northeastern North America which included parts of what are now the Maritime provinces, the Gaspé Peninsula and Maine to the Kennebec River.
Siege of Saint John (1645) – d'Aulnay defeats La Tour in Acadia
Acadia in 1757
Duc d'Anville Expedition: Action between HMS Nottingham and the Mars
Acadians at Annapolis Royal, by Samuel Scott, 1751; earliest known image of Acadians