
Course enrollment: EL-CA-241 - Research: Nova Scotia Ancestors
Purchase the enrollment for the course 'Research: Nova Scotia Ancestors' at https://genealogicalstudies.com Nova Scotia, first settled in 1604 (although it did not remain), has some of the oldest history in what is now Canada. Its early history reflected the ongoing conflicts between France and England, resulting in an era of New France and ultimately, becoming part of British Colonial territory that included the thirteen colonies in what became the United States. By the official end of the American Revolution in 1783, Acadia, as it was then known, was redrawn with the state of Maine becoming part of the new US Republic. Connections with New England, or what Nova Scotians called the “Boston States,” remained close through family on both sides of the border. The easy trip by schooner between Halifax and Boston or New York was more feasible than overland travel to other parts of Canada. In later years, as economic difficulties in Nova Scotia led to crossing the border for work opportuni