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Explore Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia -- the old Port-Royal and Cradle of Acadie -- with 10th generation Acadian / Métis Alan Melanson and his Texadian wife, Durline. Enjoy music, colourful stories and learn about making rappie pie. Alan's ancestors founded what is now the Melanson Settlement National Historic Site (c.1664) and Grand- Pré Historc Site of Canada (c. 1690). TourAnnapolisRoyal.com
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Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia is a small town with a lot to offer. Our heritage is everywhere in town and around. There are more heritage buildings here than in any other place in Canada. We also have the Fort Anne National Historic Site right in town, the Port Royal Habitation National Historic Site, Melanson Settlement and the Grist Mill not far away plus several other museums.
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Aerial Videography of the Melanson Settlement in winter.
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A little slideshow of pics I took at the Melanson Settlement site in Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, a few years ago. Just for limited private viewing. (I have no rights to the piece of music from the superb McGarrigle sisters. Sorry, by the way, that they're Quebecoises, not Acadiennes. Couldn't find any of my Acadian CDs at the moment.)
Exploring Port Royal in Annapolis Royal Nova Scotia
Day trip to Annapolis Royal. Here I quickly visited three sites that is actually part of my hertiage. You see, the first Cyr in my family tree landed here in Port Royal.
Port Royal is a reproduction habitation on the site, they think where the original settlement was located. It wasn't until the 1930's that they found a copy of the original plans, that the reconstructed the site.
The second site was the Melanson settlement. This focuses on the archaeological aspects of early french settlers life in the 1600's. Not much remains, but still an interesting look at early look at New France.
Finally, the last spot was Fort Anne, this is when the English finally took over the area and fortified to protect against evil doers. This was when the town was renamed Annapolis Royal.
The town of Annapolis Royal has several interesting sites to visit here are a few.
HILLSDALE HOUSE INN
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ANNAPOLIS ROYAL HISTORIC GARDENS
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O'DELL HOUSE MUSEUM
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YE OLDE TOWNE PUB
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Annapolis Royal Acadian / Mi'kmaq Tours - (45 sec)
Explore Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia -- the old Port-Royal and Cradle of Acadie -- with 10th generation Acadian / Métis Alan Melanson and his Texadian wife, Durline. Enjoy music, colourful stories and learn about making rappie pie. Alan's ancestors founded what is now the Melanson Settlement National Hisoric Site (c.1664) and Grand Pre National Historc Site of Canada (c. 1690). TourAnnapolisRoyal.com
Senior Community Tours Annapolis Royal
Alan and Durline Melanson welcome friends from Senior Community Tours to Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia - the oldest permanent European Settlement in Canada. Settled by the French as Port-Royal in 1605, the name was changed to Annapolis Royal to honour Queen Anne when the British captured the area for the final time in 1710. It served as the capital of Nova Scotia until Halifax was started in 1749. With over 130 registered heritage properties and 4 national historic sites, today Annapolis Royal is one of the largest National Historic Districts in Canada. Farewell to Nova Scotia by Great Big Sea is a popular song in the region.
Annapolis Royal -- Acadian Wedding in Old Acadie
Annapolis Royal / Port Royal, The Cradle of Acadie, was the scenic setting for the beautiful Acadian Wedding of Lise Robichaud and Brad LeJeune. Even Samuel de Champlain made a special appearance. Video by Alan & Durline Melanson,
Grand Pré - National & UNESCO Heritage Site
We take a walk along the Parks Canada National Historic Site of Grand Pré, located just minutes outsides of Wolfville, Nova Scotia.
Recently, the site, along with the general area was awarded the UNESCO World Heritage Site designation.
The area was important in the early settlement of the North America, will farming villages that started to from in the late 1600's. It was the hard work of the early Acadians who constructed dykes to convert the salt water marsh into rich farm land. The land itseld it used today and features excellents crops from wineries to good ole corn.
When the Acadians were deported in 1755, New England Planters came to resettle the vacated lands, and usually rebuild on higher ground. Over the years, excavations revealed a treasure trove of information about the early Acadian life.
Grand-Pré National Historic Site of Canada commemorates Grand-Pré area as a centre of Acadian settlement from 1682 to 1755 and the Deportation of the Acadians, which began in 1755 and continued until 1762.
The Landscape of Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, named Canada's 16th World Heritage Site
he Landscape of Grand Pré is an outstanding example and enduring model of the human capacity to overcome extraordinary natural challenges and cultural ordeals. It is a living agricultural landscape, claimed from the sea in the 17th century and still in use today applying the same technology and the same community-based management. It is also a powerful symbolic landscape for the Acadians who lived in harmony with the native Mi'Kmaq people, were dispersed by the Grand Derangement, and symbolically re-appropriated it in a spirit of peace and cultural sharing with the English-speaking community.
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Not to be confused with the present-day community Port Royal, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia or Port-Royal National Historic Site Port-Royal was founded in 1632, almost twenty years after Habitation at Port-Royal was destroyed.For most of the period until the Siege of Port Royal by the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1710, the village was the capital of Acadia.Port-Royal was the primary Acadian settlement until Acadians migrated out of the community to Pisiguit, Cobequid, Grand Pre, and Beaubassin in the 1680s.
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ROSE FORTUNE MONUMENT DEDICATION
The ROSE FORTUNE MONUMENT, honouring one of Canada's most inspirational National Historic Figures, was unveiled to a large international crowd by The Historical Association of Annapolis Royal on July 1, 2017. The Memorial Dedication was held at St. Luke's Anglican Church Hall and timed to coincide with Canada's 150th birthday. The monument is located in the Garrison Graveyard at Fort Anne National Historic Site in Annapolis Royal -- Nova Scotia's oldest Englist graveyard. Hosts for the event were Alan and Durline Melanson, Past President and President of The Historical Association of Annapolis Royal. Alan also served as Emcee for the event. The gravestone, uniquely designed in the shape of a stylized wheelbarrow bench by local sculptor, Brad Hall, was funded by the Annapolis Royal Candlelight Graveyard Tours in conjunction with donations from the community and beyond. Rose came to Annapolis Royal at the age of ten with the Black Loyalists. She became a successful entrepreneur and Canada's first female police officer. Her descendent, Daurene Lewis, became the first Black female Mayor in Canada. Rose Fortune's inspirational story is told nightly during the tourist season on the Annapolis Royal Candlelight Graveyard Tour at Fort Anne. To learn more about Rose, watch Explorer Guide's Rose Fortune Tribute:
Senior Community Tours Annapolis Royal
Alan and Durline Melanson welcome friends from Senior Community Tours to Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia - the oldest permanent European Settlement in Canada. Settled by the French as Port-Royal in 1605, the name was changed to Annapolis Royal to honour Queen Anne when the British captured the area for the final time in 1710. It served as the capital of Nova Scotia until Halifax was started in 1749. With over 130 registered heritage properties and 4 national historic sites, today Annapolis Royal is one of the largest National Historic Districts in Canada.
Approximate area of old Granger property from the early seventeen hundreds in Port Royal ,Acadia
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Grand-Pré was founded in about 1680 by Pierre Melanson, an Acadian settler who traveled east from Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons's original settlement at Port Royal (see Annapolis Royal and the Habitation). Pierre, an Acadian of French Huguenot and English extraction, had arrived in Port Royal with Sir Thomas Temple in the 1650s when Acadia was under English control.[2] The fertility of the soils and wealth of other resources in the area had been known to the French since the early part of the century when Samuel de Champlain, de Mont's cartographer, had surveyed the region. The settlers quickly employed their dyke building technology to the vast salt marshes; effectively reclaiming several thousand acres of productive farm land. The farms and the population grew quickly, making Grand-Pré the principal settlement in Acadia. Settlements spread from Grand-Pré around the Minas Basin, collectively becoming known as Les Mines or Minas after the copper deposits surveyed by de Mons at the entrance to the Basin. By the mid-1680s the population was sufficient to support a church and the parish of Saint-Charles de Mine was formed.[3]
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The Academy At Annapolis Royal
Constructed in 1939 and classified as a building with exceptional heritage value, the former Annapolis Royal Regional Academy (ARRA) has taken on a new life. Initially built as a Primary to Grade 12 facility, it is undergoing extensive renovation to become the “The Academy at Annapolis Royal”, a rare real estate project of 34 condominiums and common spaces (including a community gymnasium). It is located in the heart of Annapolis Royal, one of Canada's oldest permanent European settlements and Nova Scotia's first capital. The Academy integrates period charm with a modern spirit, in a 3.2 acre estate-like setting. This elegant Beaux-Arts structure and its iconic design make it an important part of the charm and character of this 400+ year old town. Annapolis Royal is famous for its heritage buildings and is one of the largest National Historic Districts in Canada. The Academy is located on a picturesque, tree-lined lot at 590 St. George Street, in Annapolis Royal, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia, Canada. Conveniently located, The Academy At Annapolis Royal is a 2 hour drive to the Halifax Stanfield International Airport, 40 minutes to Digby / Saint John Ferry Terminal, 45 minutes to Kejimkujik National Park and a 1.5 hour drive from the Yarmouth / Portland, Maine ferry. For more info visit
O Canada
Here's a beautiful rendition of O Canada recorded live at Fort Anne, Canada's oldest National Historic Site, located in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia -- one of Canada's oldest settlements and Nova Scotia's first capital. It features the Annapolis Basin Community Band. Enjoy!
Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
Adventurers from Country Farm Perennials in Nayook, Australia explore Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, the oldest permanent European Settlement in Canada. Music is Farewell to Nova Scotia by The Irish Rovers, one of the favorite traditional songs in the area.
Grand-Pré National Historic Site | Wikipedia audio article
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Grand-Pré National Historic Site
00:00:30 1 History of Settlement
00:01:26 1.1 Colonial Wars
00:04:24 2 Evangeline
00:05:25 3 Preservation of the site
00:05:34 3.1 John Frederic Herbin
00:06:11 3.2 Dominion Atlantic Railway
00:07:19 3.3 Parks Canada
00:07:56 3.4 Archaeological activities
00:09:11 4 Historic designations
00:10:46 5 See also
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Grand-Pré National Historic Site is a park set aside to commemorate the Grand-Pré area of Nova Scotia as a centre of Acadian settlement from 1682 to 1755, and the British deportation of the Acadians that happened during the French and Indian War. The original village of Grand Pré extended four kilometres along the ridge between present-day Wolfville and Hortonville. Grand-Pré is listed as a World Heritage Site and is the main component of two National Historic Sites of Canada.
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Acadia (French: Acadie) was a colony of New France in northeastern North America that included parts of eastern Quebec, the Maritime provinces, and modern-day Maine to the Kennebec River. During much of the 17th and early 18th centuries, Norridgewock on the Kennebec River and Castine at the end of the Penobscot River were the southernmost settlements of Acadia. The actual specification by the French government for the territory refers to lands bordering the Atlantic coast, roughly between the 40th and 46th parallels. Later, the territory was divided into the British colonies that became Canadian provinces and American states. The population of Acadia included members of the Wabanaki Confederacy and descendants of emigrants from France (i.e., Acadians). The two communities intermarried, which resulted in a significant portion of the population of Acadia being Métis.
The first capital of Acadia, established in 1605, was Port-Royal. A British force from Virginia attacked and burned down the town in 1613, but it was later rebuilt nearby, where it remained the longest serving capital of French Acadia until the British Siege of Port Royal in 1710. Over seventy-four years there were six colonial wars, in which English and later British interests tried to capture Acadia starting with King William's War in 1689. During these wars, along with some French troops from Quebec, some Acadians, the Wabanaki Confederacy, and French priests continuously raided New England settlements along the border in Maine. While Acadia was officially conquered in 1710 during Queen Anne's War, present-day New Brunswick and much of Maine remained contested territory. Present-day Prince Edward Island (Île Saint-Jean) and Cape Breton (Île Royale) as agreed under Article XIII of the Treaty of Utrecht remained under French control. By militarily defeating the Wabanaki Confederacy and the French priests, present-day Maine fell during Father Rale's War. During King George's War, France and New France made significant attempts to regain mainland Nova Scotia. After Father Le Loutre's War, present-day New Brunswick fell to the British. Finally, during the French and Indian War (the North American theatre of the Seven Years' War), both Île Royale and Île Saint-Jean fell to the British in 1758.
Today, the term Acadia is used to refer to regions of North America that are historically associated with the lands, descendants, or culture of the former French region. It particularly refers to regions of The Maritimes with French roots, language, and culture, primarily in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, the Magdalen Islands and Prince Edward Island, as well as in Maine. It can also be used to refer to the Acadian diaspora in southern Louisiana, a region also referred to as Acadiana. In the abstract, Acadia refers to the existence of a French culture in any of these regions.
People living in Acadia, and sometimes former residents and their descendants, are called Acadians, also later known as Cajuns, the English (mis)pronunciation of 'Cadiens, after resettlement in Louisiana.