Lineages for American Loyalist and Scottish Immigrants Yarmouth Nova Scotia Genealogies, by George S. Brown, and Nova Scotia Immigrants to 1867, by Leonard Smith Jr. and Norma H. Smith, are two prime sources for tracking ancestors in or from Nova Scotia. Nova Scotia’s earliest immigrants included Loyalists from America’s Thirteen Colonies and families from …
Category: History
Nova Scotia Settlement After Acadian Expulsion and Before Loyalist Influx
In Elizabethan terms, ‘planters’ denotes the people who planted colonies, not crops. In particular, it refers to the Annapolis Valley settlers. Their settlements were in the area that was called Nova Scotia and now includes New Brunswick Nova Scotia Governor Plans for Colonization Governor Charles Lawrence, responsible for the Acadian expulsion, developed a plan to …