Beaubassin
Beaubassin was a village in founded Acadie Frenchwoman in 1671 located on the Isthme of Chignectou near the saline marshes of Tantramar at the accesses of the Rivière Mésagouèche. At the time, the whole area delimited by the marshes of Tantramar had as a name Beaubassin.
History
Middle-class Jacob founds the village of Beaubassin in 1671 noting with the passage the exceptional fertility of the grounds of the marshy area. The village quickly takes an strategic importance since located at the hinge of the acadian peninsula and remainder of the continent (on the Isthme of Chignectou between the New Brunswick and the current Nova Scotia).
Following the transfer of the Acadie to the Great Britain by the Treated of Utrecht of 1713, the French take the initiative to set fire to the village and to force the removal of the inhabitants on the French side. The French forces withdraw and build in 1750, to answer construction on other bank of the Missagouèche river of Strong Lawrence by the Great Britain, the Fort Beauséjour. Following the capture of Strong Beauséjour, the June 16th 1755, during the War Seven Year old, the English decide to occupy the new one extremely that they re-elect “Strong Cumberland” after having set fire to Strong Lawrence to avoid his later occupation by enemy troops.
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