Scenes from the 1908 article "Fight between La Tour and D'Aulnay" written by Mary Caroline Crawford, with pencil sketches by Louis A. Holman, for The Canadian Magazine. Reference: Crawford, M.C. (1908, January). "Fight between La Tour and D'Aulnay: How the Lords of the Land struggled for supremacy in the region about Annapolis." The Canadian Magazine. Volume 30. Number 3.
Note from the editor: "Jakes" is a slang term for an outhouse or outdoor privy. Reference: Maryland Gazette (Annapolis, Maryland) · Sat, Dec 16, 1747 · Page 1.
Re-published by Association des Acadiens-Metis Souriquois on the https://www.acadiens-metis-souriquois.ca/ website with the express, written permission of Ancestry.com. Source: Newspapers.com by Ancestry News and Reflections: “What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history?” -- December 11, 202412/11/2024
“It must be admitted…it is most difficult to obtain absolute
certainties for the purposes of history.." Source: Selections from the Public Documents of the Province of Nova Scotia 1869, C. Annand in English https://archive.org/details/selectionsfromp00akingoog/page/n10/mode/2up
Link to: Kiniry, L. (2023, November 21). "Before Thanksgiving, There Were the Feasts of ‘The Order of the Good Cheer’: North America’s first culinary social club was born in the 17th-century Canadian frontier."Atlas Obscura. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/order-of-good-cheer-feasts (Retrieved 11/27/2023)
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