riviere-aux-canards

Updated: May 21, 2025

It was agreed that within forty-eight hours the English should march for Annapolis with the honors of war; that the prisoners taken by the French should remain in their hands; that the Indians, who had been the only plunderers, should keep the plunder they had taken; that the English sick and wounded should be left, till their recovery, at the neighboring settlement of Riviere-aux-Canards, protected by a French guard, and that the English engaged in the affair at Grand Pre should not bear arms during the next six months within the district about the head of the Bay of Fundy, including Chignecto, Grand Pre, and the neighboring settlements.

Francis Parkman - A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II

The English sick and wounded were sent to the settlement of Riviere-aux-Canards, where, protected by a French guard and attended by an English surgeon, they were to remain till able to reach the British fort. La Corne called a council of war, and in view of the scarcity of food and other reasons it was resolved to return to Beaubassin. Many of the French had fallen ill.

Francis Parkman - A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II

A few months later, the deputies of Riviere-aux-Canards wrote to Shirley, thanking him for kindness which they said was undeserved, promising to do their duty thenceforth, but begging him to excuse them from giving up persons who had acted "contraire aux Interests de leur devoire," representing the difficulty of their position, and protesting "une Soumission parfaite et en touts Respects."

Francis Parkman - A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II