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'''Canso''' is a community in ], on the north-eastern tip of mainland ], Canada, next to ]. In January 2012, it ceased to be a separate town and as of July 2012 was amalgamated into the ].<ref>{{dead link|date=July 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The area was settled in 1604, along with the ]. The construction of a British fort in the village in 1720 was instrumental in contributing to the outbreak of ] in 1722. The town is of national historic importance because it was one of only two British settlements in Nova Scotia prior to the establishment of Halifax (1749). Canso played a key role in the defeat of ]. Today, the town attracts people internationally for the annual ].
'''Canso''' (] population: 992) is a small ] town in ], on the north-eastern tip of mainland ].


==Geography== == Geography ==
The town is located on the southern shore of ]. The southern limit of the bay is at Cape Canso, a headland approximately 3 ] southeast of the town. The community is located on the southern shore of ]. The southern limit of the bay is at ], a headland approximately {{convert|3|km|mi|abbr=on}} southeast of the community.


Canso is the southeastern terminus of ], an important secondary highway in ] and ] counties.
Canso Harbour is protected by the Canso Islands, a small ] lying immediately north and east of the mainland, with Durells Island, Piscataqui Island, George Island, and Grassy Island being the largest.


As the community is situated on the end of a peninsula jutting into the Atlantic Ocean, Canso frequently experiences ], particularly during the warmer summer months when continental air temperatures collide with cooler ocean temperatures offshore.
Canso is the southeastern terminus of ], an important secondary highway in ] and ] counties.


=== Canso Islands ===
As the town is situated on the end of a peninsula jutting into the Atlantic Ocean, Canso frequently experiences ], particularly during the warmer summer months when continental air temperatures collide with cooler ocean temperatures offshore.
Canso Harbour is protected by the Canso Islands, a small ] lying immediately north and east of the mainland, with Durells Island (named after ]), Piscataqui Island, George Island, and Grassy Island being the largest.


The islands were designated a ] in 1925 due to their role as an important fishing base for French in the 16th century and the British during the 18th century, and as the staging point for the ] against ].<ref>{{CRHP|12741|Canso Islands National Historic Site of Canada|August 26, 2012}}</ref> "]", the remains of early 18th-century British fortifications (a 1720 redoubt, 1723–24 fort, and a 1745 blockhouse) on Grassy Island, was also individually designated as a National Historic Site in 1962.<ref>{{CRHP|11666|Grassy Island Fort National Historic Site of Canada|April 14, 2013}}</ref>
==History==
The name is traced to a variation of the ] name "camsok", which roughly translates into "opposite a high bluff or high banks opposite". The area was likely home to members of the Mi'kmaq Nation due to its proximity to excellent fishing grounds.


== History ==
Although fishermen from ] had been operating in the waters off Canso, beginning in the early part of the ], the European discovery of the actual area of the town and its harbour is traced to ] fishermen in ]. The name "Canseau" was first mentioned in ]'s ''Histoire de la Nouvelle-France'' (]).
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Since the 16th century, Canso has been a strategically important fishery base. It is said that the harbour of Canso was frequented by European fur traders and fishermen within a dozen years of the arrival of Columbus in America, and an attempt at settlement was made here as early as 1518.


] Governor ] built a fortified post, ], in 1632 at La Hève (now ]) with ] as lieutenant. {{sfnp|Dunn|2004|p=16}} Upon Razilly's death in 1635, the new Governor ] moved the Acadians from La Hève to ], which had been given up by the Scottish also in 1632.<ref> Blupete.com</ref>
The town was occupied on and off by both the French (from ]) or ] (from ]) during the ] and early ]. Under the ] in ], Canso, along with the rest of present-day peninsular Nova Scotia was passed from French to ] control. France maintained possession of islands in the ], including Ile St-Jean and Ile Royale (present-day ] and ]) and contested that the Canso Islands were included in its territory, which was coveted by French fishermen.


=== The ''Squirrel'' Affair ===
As ] fishermen also desired access to the fishery off eastern Nova Scotia and on the Grand Banks, Britain objected to French control of the Canso Islands and evicted French fishermen shortly after the treaty was implemented. France began construction of ] on the southeastern tip of Ile Royale to protect the entrance to the ] and ], as well as to provide a French naval base for protecting the Grand Banks fishing fleet.


Shortly after ] established himself at ] in 1715, the Mi'kmaq raided the station and burned it to the ground.<ref name="Geoffery Plank 2001. p. 76-77">Geoffery Plank. An Unsettled Conquest. University of Pennsylvania. 2001. pp. 76–77.</ref> In response, on September 17–24, 1718, Southack led a raid on Canso and Chedabucto (present-day community of ]) in what became known as the ''Squirrel'' Affair. Leading {{HMS|Squirrel|1707|6}}, Southack laid siege for three days to ] at Chedabucto, which was defended primarily by Acadians.<ref>Haynes, pp. 121, 125</ref> There were approximately 300 Acadians in the area.<ref>Haynes, p. 122</ref>
In ], Nova Scotia's governor Richard Phillips ordered a small ] ] be established at "Canso" (actually located on Grassy Island) out of fear of a French attack staged out of Louisbourg to the east. The British government refused to pay for defence of the community leaving Phillips to build a simple earthen fort, however the fort soon fell into disrepair.


Southack imprisoned numerous Acadians onboard ''Squirrel'' and killed several others. On September 18, British marines landed on Lasconde's Grave and captured the entrance to Chedabucto Harbour. The following day ''Squirrel'' landed more marines at Salmon River who then proceeded to the rear of the village. ''Squirrel'' made its first attempt to enter the harbour but was beaten back by Acadian cannon fire from the fort. Later in the day the village was captured by the British. On September 20 ''Squirrel'' made a second, and successful, attempt to enter the harbour. Once in the harbour, she fired upon the fort.
During the ] and ], British settlement at Canso on Grassy Island prospered as it was the closest harbour on peninsular Nova Scotia to the ]. Thousands of New England fishermen flocked to Canso each summer and fall to fish; upwards of 8 million fish were pulled on average each season. Some local merchants became wealthy through ] of goods between Canso and Louisbourg, as trade between Britain and France was strictly prohibited.


On September 23, Southack's men sacked and burned the village. Their haul was loaded onto several French ships that had been captured in the harbor. The following day, September 24, Southack released the Acadian prisoners onto the Canso Islands without any provisions or clothing.<ref>Campbell, p. 132</ref> Others fled to Isle Madame and ].<ref>Robinson, p. 53; Haynes, p. 111, p. 114, p. 121</ref> He seized two French ships, and encouraged Governor of Nova Scotia ] to fortify Canso.<ref name="Geoffery Plank 2001. p. 76-77"/>
In ], Britain and France went to war under the ] with their North American battles being referred to as ]. In the summer of ], a French expedition out of Louisbourg attacked the settlement on Grassy Island, burning the buildings to the ground and levelling the simple fort.


=== Raid on Canso (1720) ===
This expedition was the final straw for war-hungry British colonists in New England who feared the "growing French menace" to their fishery and livelihoods. The following spring, a large fleet of New England ] led by ] left ] in late March, arriving in Canso at Grassy Island which was used as a rendezvous point and logistics support base for staging an attack and siege on Fortress Louisbourg. The siege of Louisbourg began on ], ] and lasted until the fortress's defenders surrendered on ]. The New England fishing fleets moved to Louisbourg, abandoning Canso in favour of a superior port which was closer still to the Grand Banks fishery.
On August 7, 1720, 60–75 Mi'kmaq joined French fishermen from Petit de Grat, and attacked the fortification as it was being built. The Mi'kmaq killed three men, wounded four more and caused significant damage.<ref>Geoffery Plank. An Unsettled Conquest. University of Pennsylvania. 2001. p. 77; William Williamson, History of Maine. p. 101; Ruth Holmes Whithead. The Old Man Told Us. p.94</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/provincegalleym00taplgoog#page/n52/mode/2up|title=The Province galley of Massachusetts Bay, 1694–1716: a chapter of early ...|website=archive.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=McLennan|first=J.S.|author-link=John Stewart McLennan|title=Louisbourg, from Its Foundation to Its Fall, 1713-1758|url=https://archive.org/details/louisbourgfromit00mcleuoft|page=|year=1918|publisher=Macmillan|location=London}}</ref> The New Englanders took 21 prisoners which they transported to Annapolis Royal. The raid on Canso was significant because of the involvement of the Mi'kmaq and was a chief factor leading up to Father Rale's War.<ref>Robinson, p. 56</ref>


In the Fall of 1720, the New Englanders finished building Fort William Augustus (also known as Fort Phillips after Richard Philipps, the then Governor of Nova Scotia).<ref>Haynes, p. 142</ref> Construction of such a permanent facility was a violation of long-standing agreements between the Mi'kmaq and the fishermen, and also helped to precipitate Father Rale's War.<ref>Geoffery Plank, An Unsettled Conquest. p. 78.</ref>
Three years later on ], ], Britain was forced to return Louisbourg to French control under the ]. The New England fleets returned to Canso and the port continued to prosper from being a British outpost on the North Atlantic for another decade. In ], a force of British Army and Royal Navy regulars staged out of Canso for the second and final attack and siege of Fortress Louisbourg, led by ] and ]. The attack began on ] and ended with a French surrender on ]. The British fleet continued to conquest the rest of ], leaving Britain in total control of the North Atlantic ].


In 1721, the governor of Massachusetts took a proprietary attitude toward the Canso fisheries, and sent ] to patrol the waters off Nova Scotia. With the arrival of British colonial troops to the region, the Mi'kmaq were discouraged from attacking until the following year.<ref name="George Rawlyk p.114">George Rawlyk. Cod, Louisbourg. and the Acadians. ''The Atlantic Region to Confederation: A History''. p.114</ref> HMS ''Seahorse'' was replaced in 1721 by the first naval ship of Nova Scotia, ''William Augustus'', under the command of ].<ref>Haynes, p. 157</ref>
Following the removal of the French threat, Canso's status was reduced to one of Nova Scotia's numerous fishing communities, however area residents and colonial government administrators opted for a grander vision. In ] a town plot was surveyed south of the present-day location of the town. It was named "Wilmot", in honour of Colonel Montague Wilmot, ], however the Wilmot township was never developed.


=== Father Rale's War ===
Instead, the present-day community developed along the southern shore of Chedabucto Bay, directly opposite the former settlement at Grassy Island. The town grew under a prosperous ground fishery and was incorporated on ], ].


==== Raid on Canso (1722) ====
From ] until the early ], Canso was the western terminus of several ]s. In the late ] and early ], Canso was selected as the terminus of several proposed ] lines. Canso is approximately the same distance from the ]-Nova Scotia border as the port of ], further to the west and was located approximately a half-day's sailing time closer to Europe. These proposals resulted in some railway construction in northwestern Nova Scotia, but lines never made it as far as Guysborough County.
In the lead up to Father Rale's War, in July 1722, the Mi'kmaq and some Abenakis began a major offensive against New England fishermen and traders in an attempt to blockade the Nova Scotia capital of ]. Natives captured eighteen trading vessels in the Bay of Fundy and an additional eighteen New England fishing schooners between Cape Sable and Canso.<ref name="George Rawlyk p.114"/> As a result, the New England Governor declared war on the Mi'kmaq which lasted three years.


The ship William Augustus led ships from Canso to protect the fisheries, which resulted in the battle at ].<ref>Beamish Murdoch, History of Nova Scotia or Acadia, p. 399.</ref> Only five native bodies were recovered from the battle and the New Englanders decapitated the corpses and set the severed heads on pikes surrounding Canso's new fort.<ref>Geoffery Plank, An Unsettled Conquest, p. 78</ref>
Following the ], Canso's economy reached its peak when the town became home to one of the largest ]s in the world after ] received increased groundfish quotas for its offshore trawler fleet. The industrialization of the fishery created numerous jobs both on and off shore for town and area residents. During the ] it became apparent that fish stocks were collapsing and National Sea Products sold the plant to SeaFreeze by the early ] after the facility had been mothballed for a time.


==== Raid on Canso (1723) ====
SeaFreeze attempted to operate for several more years but by ], it too had run out options for keeping the plant going. Canso entered into a state of economic decline during the ] and ], with many attempts by local politicians to secure the rights for the plant to process other seafood fished in other parts of Canadian waters, or internationally, but to no avail. The experience left many in the town and surrounding region with a deep-rooted bitterness toward the ], which allows fishing vessels working near Canso to sell seafood to plants in other locations.
On July 23, 1723, the village was raided again by the Mi'kmaq and they killed three men, a woman and a child.<ref>Haynes, p. 158</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/penhallowsindian00penh#page/96/mode/2up|title=Penhallow's Indian wars; a facsimile reprint of the first edition, printed in Boston in 1726, with the notes of earlier editors and additions from the original manuscript|website=archive.org|year=1924 }}</ref> In this same year, the New Englanders built a twelve-gun blockhouse to guard the village and fishery.<ref>Benjamin Church, p. 289; John Grenier, p. 62</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/documentsrelativ09brod#page/936/mode/2up|title=Documents relative to the colonial history of the state of New York|website=archive.org|year=1853 }}</ref>


==== Raid on Canso (1725) ====
Between the ] census and the ] census, Canso's population declined 12% from 1,127 to 992. The retracting economy in the town has led to a perilous state of municipal finances with a large accumulated deficit. A provincial government-sponsored ] was held on ], ] to consider merging the town with the municipality of Guysborough County. It was hoped that such a move would reduce administrative costs and be able to pass more on to the community. The proposal was rejected, mainly due to an appeal to the town's heritage and identity as an historic fishing port. The citizens of Canso are now engaged in fundraising to try and relieve the deficit.
In 1725, sixty Abenakis and Mi'kmaq launch another attack on Canso, destroying two houses and killing six people.<ref>Haynes, p. 159</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofwarsofn00penh#page/108/mode/2up|title=The history of the wars of New-England with the eastern Indians|website=archive.org|year=1859 }}</ref>


=== King George's War ===
==Trivia==
* The ] is held in Canso every year to honour ].
* The Canso Islands National Historic Site is located in the town.
* ] on ] is named after the town.


==== Raid on Canso (1744) ====
==External links==
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At the outbreak of ], the French destroyed the flourishing fishing village during the ] (1744).

==== Siege of Louisbourg ====
A year later, the village Canso was used as a staging area for the 1745 siege of Louisbourg. The British built a blockhouse, which they named ].<ref>. Note: some primary sources indicate the name was Fort Cumberland.</ref> General ] arrived at Canso, Nova Scotia, with four thousand and seventy troops, April 4, 1745, and, in three weeks was joined by Commodore Warren, with four ships from England.

=== Father Le Loutre's War ===

==== Raid on Canso (1749) ====
During ], in August 1749, Lieutenant ] was at Canso and his party was attacked by Mi'kmaq. They seized his vessel and took twenty prisoners and carried them off to Louisbourg. Three English and seven Mi'kmaq were killed.<ref>Akins, History of Halifax. p. 18</ref> After ] complained to the Governor of ], the prisoners were released.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wicken|first=William|title=Mi'kmaq Treaties on Trial: History, Land, and Donald Marshall Junior|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0MEQyYggQE8C&pg=PP1|year=2002|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-7665-6}}</ref>

==== Raid on Canso (1752)====
Another raid happened August 4, 1752.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=4p3FJGzxjgAC&dat=17521021&printsec=frontpage&hl=en|title=The Halifax Gazette - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/20a21collectionsof20novauoft|title=Collections of the Nova Scotia Historical Society|year=1878 |publisher=Halifax|via=Internet Archive}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=4p3FJGzxjgAC&dat=17520923&printsec=frontpage&hl=en|title=The Halifax Gazette - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=4p3FJGzxjgAC&dat=17520930&printsec=frontpage&hl=en|title=The Halifax Gazette - Google News Archive Search|website=news.google.com}}</ref>

==== Attack at Canso (1753) ====
On February 21, 1753, 9 Mi'kmaq in canoes attacked an English vessel which had a crew of four at near-by ]. The Mi'kmaq killed two English men and took two others captive for six weeks. After seven weeks in captivity, on April 8, the two English men killed six Mi'kmaq and managed to escape.<ref>Whitehead, p. , 129, 137</ref> In response, on the night of April 21 the Mi'kmaq attacked another English schooner in a naval battle between Outique Island and Isle Madame in which the Mi'kmaq attacked an English schooner. There were nine English men and one Acadian who was the pilot. The Mi'kmaq killed the English and let the Acadian off at Port Toulouse, where the Mi'kmaq sank the schooner after looting it.<ref>Whitehead, p. 137</ref>

=== French and Indian War ===

==== Expulsion of the Acadians ====
During the ] the famous ship the ] was in port for almost a month awaiting passage to France (1758). While in port the vessel narrowly escaped a raid by Mi'kmaq.

=== American Revolution ===

==== Raid on Canso (1775) ====
During the ], Canso was subject to numerous raids by American ]s. ]'s ] raided Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island on November 17, 1775 and three days later, they raided Canso Harbor.

==== Raid on Canso (1776) ====
{{main|Raid on Canso (1776)}}

On September 22, 1776, Canso was attacked by American privateer ]. The privateer sailed on {{USS|Providence|1775|6}} and destroyed fifteen vessels, and damaged much property on shore. There he recruited men to fill the vacancies created by manning his prizes, burned a British fishing schooner, sank a second, and captured a third besides a shallop which he used as a tender. Jones then sacked the settlements of Petit-de-Grat and ] on ] and then returned to Boston.

On November 22, John Paul Jones returned to Canso in {{USS|Alfred|1774|6}}. Boats from the ship raided the community, his crews burned a transport bound for Canada with provisions and a warehouse full of whale oil, besides capturing a small schooner. Captain Jones then went on to present-day ] to free Americans imprisoned in local coal mines.

==== Raid on Canso (1779) ====
{{main|Raid on Canso (1779)}}
Again in 1779, American privateers destroyed the Canso fisheries, worth $50,000 a year to England.<ref>Lieutenant Governor Sir Richard Hughes states in a dispatch to Lord Germaine</ref>

In February 1780, the schooner Freemason struck a rock near Canso and sunk. They landed near Whitehead and 16 of the 19 perished in the woods because of the winter weather. The three survivors got to Canso on March 9, having survived by eating their fellow crew members.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/ahistorynovasco01murdgoog|title=A History of Nova Scotia, Or Acadie|date=January 28, 1866|publisher=J. Barnes|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>

=== Recent history ===
]
In a ] held on July 12, 2008, residents narrowly voted to amalgamate the town with the neighbouring Municipality of the District of Guysborough. The decision to amalgamate was put off, and after review was rejected again in March 2023<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.guysboroughjournal.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=82:council-votes-down-amalgamation&catid=42:front-page-stories|title=The Guysborough Journal|website=www.guysboroughjournal.com}}</ref>

On January 19, 2012, the ] granted the town's application to dissolve. On July 1, 2012, Canso became part of ].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/town-of-canso-to-dissolve-july-1-1.1293194|title=Town of Canso to dissolve July 1}}</ref>

In early 2017, ] announced it intended to lease land near Canso to build and operate Canada's only active commercial spaceport, using the ] ] rocket. Construction is slated to begin in late 2021 and is expected to take three or four years.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.novascotia.ca/nse/ea/canso-spaceport-facility/ |title=Canso Spaceport Facility Project |work=] |date=March 19, 2021 |access-date=May 11, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Golubeva |first=Alena |url=https://gmk.center/interview/maksim-degtyarev-spros-na-vyvedenie-gruzov-na-orbitu-budet-rasti/ |title=Максим Дегтярев: "Спрос на выведение грузов на орбиту будет расти" |trans-title=Maxim Degtyarev: "The demand for placing cargo into orbit will grow" |work=GMK Center |date=April 9, 2021 |access-date=May 11, 2021 |language=ru |quote=Компания получила разрешение, оформляет документы на получение земельного участка и уже в текущем году рассчитывает начать строительные работы. Сколько времени уйдет на строительство космодрома? – Три-четыре года. }}</ref> The first suborbital flight from Canso will be conducted via a ] in 2023, while the Cyclone-4M is expected to make its first orbital flight from the facility in 2025.<ref>{{cite press release |url=https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20221208005364/en/ |title=Precious Payload Partners With Maritime Launch, Adding Canada's First Commercial Spaceport, Spaceport Nova Scotia, to Launch.ctrl Marketplace |work=] |date=December 8, 2022 |access-date=December 10, 2022}}</ref>

== Annual events ==
]Canso is host to the ], an annual event held around the Canada Day weekend. This event attracts over 10,000 visitors, who enjoy music from all over the world on seven different stages over the 3 days.

Each year, during the second week of August, a regatta is held within the town. This week-long event includes boat races, a mid-way, parade, seaman's memorial, hootenannies as well as various activities for the youth. The regatta draws many previous generations of the town to serve the purpose of a Come Home week. Each year, the regatta has a theme which is reflected in the parade, with 2009's being The Circus Comes to Town.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.guysboroughjournal.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=60&Itemid=73|title=The Guysborough Journal|website=www.guysboroughjournal.com}}</ref>

== Transportation ==
Nova Scotia Trunk 16, a secondary highway important to the counties of Antigonish and Guysborough, terminates in Canso, its easternmost point.

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== Notable residents ==
* ] (1725–1790) British military officer stationed at Canso during Father Le Loutre's War
* ] (1722–1763) British military officer stationed at Canso during Father Le Loutre's War
* ] (1899–1979), astronomer.
* Hannah Norris, early feminist<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/norris_hannah_maria_14E.html|title=Biography – NORRIS, HANNAH MARIA – Volume XIV (1911–1920) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography}}</ref>
* ] (born 1872), one-time mayor
* ] (1870–1953), founder of the ]
* ] – (1838–1916) schooner captain, born in Canso or nearby, sailed out of ].
*] – folk singer, writer.

==See also==
* ], an aircraft which was also named the Canso, after the town

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

=== Sources ===
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* Judith Tulloch. "The New England Fisheries and the Trade at Canso: 1720–1744". ''How deep is the ocean?: historical essays on Canada's Atlantic fishery'' James E. Candow, Carol Corbin (eds)
* {{cite book|last=Dunn|first=Brenda|title=A History of Port-Royal-Annapolis Royal, 1605-1800|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9c4hPwAACAAJ&pg=PA1|year=2004|publisher=Nimbus|isbn=978-1-55109-740-4}}
* {{cite book|last=Griffiths|first=N.E.S.|author-link=Naomi E. S. Griffiths|title=From Migrant to Acadian: A North American Border People, 1604-1755|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cG4wSmIlziYC&pg=PP1|year=2005|publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press|isbn=978-0-7735-2699-0}}
*John Mack Faragher, ''A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland'' (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005).
*Haynes, Mark. The Forgotten Battle: A History of the Acadians of Canso/ Chedabuctou. British Columbia: Trafford. 2004
*John Reid, Maurice Basque, Elizabeth Mancke, Barry Moody, Geoffrey Plank, and William Wicken. 2004.'' The 'Conquest' of Acadia, 1710: Imperial, Colonial, an Aboriginal Constructions.'' University of Toronto Press.
*Robison, Mark Power. Maritime Frontiers: The Evolution of Empire in Nova Scotia, 1713–1758. Unpublished Doctorate Thesis. Department of History. University of Colorado. 2000
*Geoffrey Plank, An Unsettled Conquest. University of Pennsylvania. 2001
* Whitehead. The Oldman Told Us.

== External links ==
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For the headland, see Cape Canso.

Community in Nova Scotia, Canada
Canso
Community
Canso as seen from the harbourCanso as seen from the harbour
Nickname: Oldest Fishing Port on Mainland North America
Motto(s): "Heritage, Heart & Home"
Canso is located in Nova ScotiaCansoCansoLocation of Canso, Nova Scotia
Coordinates: 45°20′2″N 60°59′43″W / 45.33389°N 60.99528°W / 45.33389; -60.99528
Country Canada
Province Nova Scotia
CountyGuysbrough County
Founded1604
IncorporatedMay 14, 1901
DissolvedJuly 1, 2012
Government
 • TypeDistrict Municipality
 • BodyMunicipality of the District of Guysborough
 • CouncillorFin Armsworthy
 • WardenVernon Pitts
 • MLALloyd Hines (Liberal)
 • MPMike Kelloway (Liberal)
Area
 • Land5.42 km (2.09 sq mi)
Highest elevation14 m (46 ft)
Lowest elevation0 m (0 ft)
Population
 • Total806
 • Density148.8/km (385/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC-4 (AST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-3 (ADT)
Canadian Postal codeB0H 1H0
Area code902
Telephone Exchange366
Median Earnings*$30,502
NTS Map11F7 Cape Canso
GNBC CodeCAGBW
Websitehttp://www.municipality.guysborough.ns.ca/
Historical population
YearPop.±%
19011,479—    
19111,617+9.3%
19211,623+0.4%
19311,575−3.0%
19411,418−10.0%
19511,313−7.4%
19561,261−4.0%
19611,151−8.7%
19811,255+9.0%
19861,285+2.4%
19911,228−4.4%
19961,127−8.2%
2001992−12.0%
2006911−8.2%

45°20′2″N 60°59′43″W / 45.33389°N 60.99528°W / 45.33389; -60.99528 (Canso) Canso is a community in Guysborough County, on the north-eastern tip of mainland Nova Scotia, Canada, next to Chedabucto Bay. In January 2012, it ceased to be a separate town and as of July 2012 was amalgamated into the Municipality of the District of Guysborough. The area was settled in 1604, along with the original Port-Royal. The construction of a British fort in the village in 1720 was instrumental in contributing to the outbreak of Dummer's War in 1722. The town is of national historic importance because it was one of only two British settlements in Nova Scotia prior to the establishment of Halifax (1749). Canso played a key role in the defeat of Fortress of Louisbourg. Today, the town attracts people internationally for the annual Stan Rogers Folk Festival.

Geography

The community is located on the southern shore of Chedabucto Bay. The southern limit of the bay is at Cape Canso, a headland approximately 3 km (1.9 mi) southeast of the community.

Canso is the southeastern terminus of Trunk 16, an important secondary highway in Antigonish and Guysborough counties.

As the community is situated on the end of a peninsula jutting into the Atlantic Ocean, Canso frequently experiences fog, particularly during the warmer summer months when continental air temperatures collide with cooler ocean temperatures offshore.

Canso Islands

Canso Harbour is protected by the Canso Islands, a small archipelago lying immediately north and east of the mainland, with Durells Island (named after Philip Durell), Piscataqui Island, George Island, and Grassy Island being the largest.

The islands were designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1925 due to their role as an important fishing base for French in the 16th century and the British during the 18th century, and as the staging point for the 1745 expedition against Louisbourg. "Grassy Island Fort", the remains of early 18th-century British fortifications (a 1720 redoubt, 1723–24 fort, and a 1745 blockhouse) on Grassy Island, was also individually designated as a National Historic Site in 1962.

History

Canso, Nova Scotia – 1914

Since the 16th century, Canso has been a strategically important fishery base. It is said that the harbour of Canso was frequented by European fur traders and fishermen within a dozen years of the arrival of Columbus in America, and an attempt at settlement was made here as early as 1518.

Acadian Governor Isaac de Razilly built a fortified post, Fort Ste. Marie de Grace, in 1632 at La Hève (now LaHave) with Nicholas Le Creux du Breuil as lieutenant. Upon Razilly's death in 1635, the new Governor Charles de Menou d'Aulnay moved the Acadians from La Hève to Port Royal, which had been given up by the Scottish also in 1632.

The Squirrel Affair

Shortly after Cyprian Southack established himself at Shelburne, Nova Scotia in 1715, the Mi'kmaq raided the station and burned it to the ground. In response, on September 17–24, 1718, Southack led a raid on Canso and Chedabucto (present-day community of Guysborough) in what became known as the Squirrel Affair. Leading HMS Squirrel, Southack laid siege for three days to Fort St. Louis at Chedabucto, which was defended primarily by Acadians. There were approximately 300 Acadians in the area.

Southack imprisoned numerous Acadians onboard Squirrel and killed several others. On September 18, British marines landed on Lasconde's Grave and captured the entrance to Chedabucto Harbour. The following day Squirrel landed more marines at Salmon River who then proceeded to the rear of the village. Squirrel made its first attempt to enter the harbour but was beaten back by Acadian cannon fire from the fort. Later in the day the village was captured by the British. On September 20 Squirrel made a second, and successful, attempt to enter the harbour. Once in the harbour, she fired upon the fort.

On September 23, Southack's men sacked and burned the village. Their haul was loaded onto several French ships that had been captured in the harbor. The following day, September 24, Southack released the Acadian prisoners onto the Canso Islands without any provisions or clothing. Others fled to Isle Madame and Petit-de-Grat, Nova Scotia. He seized two French ships, and encouraged Governor of Nova Scotia Richard Philipps to fortify Canso.

Raid on Canso (1720)

On August 7, 1720, 60–75 Mi'kmaq joined French fishermen from Petit de Grat, and attacked the fortification as it was being built. The Mi'kmaq killed three men, wounded four more and caused significant damage. The New Englanders took 21 prisoners which they transported to Annapolis Royal. The raid on Canso was significant because of the involvement of the Mi'kmaq and was a chief factor leading up to Father Rale's War.

In the Fall of 1720, the New Englanders finished building Fort William Augustus (also known as Fort Phillips after Richard Philipps, the then Governor of Nova Scotia). Construction of such a permanent facility was a violation of long-standing agreements between the Mi'kmaq and the fishermen, and also helped to precipitate Father Rale's War.

In 1721, the governor of Massachusetts took a proprietary attitude toward the Canso fisheries, and sent HMS Seahorse to patrol the waters off Nova Scotia. With the arrival of British colonial troops to the region, the Mi'kmaq were discouraged from attacking until the following year. HMS Seahorse was replaced in 1721 by the first naval ship of Nova Scotia, William Augustus, under the command of Cyprian Southack.

Father Rale's War

Raid on Canso (1722)

In the lead up to Father Rale's War, in July 1722, the Mi'kmaq and some Abenakis began a major offensive against New England fishermen and traders in an attempt to blockade the Nova Scotia capital of Annapolis Royal. Natives captured eighteen trading vessels in the Bay of Fundy and an additional eighteen New England fishing schooners between Cape Sable and Canso. As a result, the New England Governor declared war on the Mi'kmaq which lasted three years.

The ship William Augustus led ships from Canso to protect the fisheries, which resulted in the battle at Jeddore Harbour, Nova Scotia. Only five native bodies were recovered from the battle and the New Englanders decapitated the corpses and set the severed heads on pikes surrounding Canso's new fort.

Raid on Canso (1723)

On July 23, 1723, the village was raided again by the Mi'kmaq and they killed three men, a woman and a child. In this same year, the New Englanders built a twelve-gun blockhouse to guard the village and fishery.

Raid on Canso (1725)

In 1725, sixty Abenakis and Mi'kmaq launch another attack on Canso, destroying two houses and killing six people.

King George's War

Raid on Canso (1744)

Main article: Raid on Canso

At the outbreak of King George's War, the French destroyed the flourishing fishing village during the Raid on Canso (1744).

Siege of Louisbourg

A year later, the village Canso was used as a staging area for the 1745 siege of Louisbourg. The British built a blockhouse, which they named Fort Prince William (Nova Scotia). General Sir William Pepperell arrived at Canso, Nova Scotia, with four thousand and seventy troops, April 4, 1745, and, in three weeks was joined by Commodore Warren, with four ships from England.

Father Le Loutre's War

Raid on Canso (1749)

During Father Le Loutre's War, in August 1749, Lieutenant Joseph Gorham was at Canso and his party was attacked by Mi'kmaq. They seized his vessel and took twenty prisoners and carried them off to Louisbourg. Three English and seven Mi'kmaq were killed. After Governor Edward Cornwallis complained to the Governor of Ile Royale, the prisoners were released.

Raid on Canso (1752)

Another raid happened August 4, 1752.

Attack at Canso (1753)

On February 21, 1753, 9 Mi'kmaq in canoes attacked an English vessel which had a crew of four at near-by Country Harbour, Nova Scotia. The Mi'kmaq killed two English men and took two others captive for six weeks. After seven weeks in captivity, on April 8, the two English men killed six Mi'kmaq and managed to escape. In response, on the night of April 21 the Mi'kmaq attacked another English schooner in a naval battle between Outique Island and Isle Madame in which the Mi'kmaq attacked an English schooner. There were nine English men and one Acadian who was the pilot. The Mi'kmaq killed the English and let the Acadian off at Port Toulouse, where the Mi'kmaq sank the schooner after looting it.

French and Indian War

Expulsion of the Acadians

During the Expulsion of the Acadians the famous ship the Duke William was in port for almost a month awaiting passage to France (1758). While in port the vessel narrowly escaped a raid by Mi'kmaq.

American Revolution

Raid on Canso (1775)

During the American Revolutionary War, Canso was subject to numerous raids by American privateers. George Washington's Marblehead Regiment raided Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island on November 17, 1775 and three days later, they raided Canso Harbor.

Raid on Canso (1776)

Main article: Raid on Canso (1776)

On September 22, 1776, Canso was attacked by American privateer John Paul Jones. The privateer sailed on USS Providence and destroyed fifteen vessels, and damaged much property on shore. There he recruited men to fill the vacancies created by manning his prizes, burned a British fishing schooner, sank a second, and captured a third besides a shallop which he used as a tender. Jones then sacked the settlements of Petit-de-Grat and Arichat, Nova Scotia on Isle Madame, Nova Scotia and then returned to Boston.

On November 22, John Paul Jones returned to Canso in USS Alfred. Boats from the ship raided the community, his crews burned a transport bound for Canada with provisions and a warehouse full of whale oil, besides capturing a small schooner. Captain Jones then went on to present-day Sydney, Nova Scotia to free Americans imprisoned in local coal mines.

Raid on Canso (1779)

Main article: Raid on Canso (1779)

Again in 1779, American privateers destroyed the Canso fisheries, worth $50,000 a year to England.

In February 1780, the schooner Freemason struck a rock near Canso and sunk. They landed near Whitehead and 16 of the 19 perished in the woods because of the winter weather. The three survivors got to Canso on March 9, having survived by eating their fellow crew members.

Recent history

The former seal of Canso

In a plebiscite held on July 12, 2008, residents narrowly voted to amalgamate the town with the neighbouring Municipality of the District of Guysborough. The decision to amalgamate was put off, and after review was rejected again in March 2023

On January 19, 2012, the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board granted the town's application to dissolve. On July 1, 2012, Canso became part of The Municipality of the District of Guysborough.

In early 2017, Maritime Launch Services announced it intended to lease land near Canso to build and operate Canada's only active commercial spaceport, using the Ukrainian Cyclone-4M rocket. Construction is slated to begin in late 2021 and is expected to take three or four years. The first suborbital flight from Canso will be conducted via a small-lift launch vehicle in 2023, while the Cyclone-4M is expected to make its first orbital flight from the facility in 2025.

Annual events

This aging cable building, now a historic site, received the first distress call from Titanic in 1912

Canso is host to the Stan Rogers Folk Festival, an annual event held around the Canada Day weekend. This event attracts over 10,000 visitors, who enjoy music from all over the world on seven different stages over the 3 days.

Each year, during the second week of August, a regatta is held within the town. This week-long event includes boat races, a mid-way, parade, seaman's memorial, hootenannies as well as various activities for the youth. The regatta draws many previous generations of the town to serve the purpose of a Come Home week. Each year, the regatta has a theme which is reflected in the parade, with 2009's being The Circus Comes to Town.

Transportation

Nova Scotia Trunk 16, a secondary highway important to the counties of Antigonish and Guysborough, terminates in Canso, its easternmost point.

Distance chart

Destination Distance (km) Distance (mi) Highways Notes
Guysborough, Nova Scotia 48.2 30.0 Trunk 16
Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia 110 68 Trunk 16 / Hwy 104 (TCH)
Antigonish, Nova Scotia 112 70 Trunk 16 / Hwy 104 (TCH)
New Glasgow, Nova Scotia 167 104 Trunk 16 / Hwy 104 (TCH)
Truro, Nova Scotia 225 140 Trunk 16 / Hwy 104 (TCH)
Sydney, Nova Scotia 238 148 Trunk 16 / Hwy 104 (TCH) / Hwy 104 / Trunk 4
Amherst, Nova Scotia 326 203 Trunk 16 / Hwy 104 (TCH)
Halifax, Nova Scotia 327 203 Trunk 16 / Hwy 104 (TCH) / Hwy 102 / Hwy 118 / Hwy 111
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia 621 386 Trunk 16 / Hwy 104 (TCH) / Hwy 102 / Hwy 101

Notable residents

See also

References

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  3. Amalgamation Decision
  4. Canso Islands National Historic Site of Canada. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved August 26, 2012.
  5. Grassy Island Fort National Historic Site of Canada. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved April 14, 2013.
  6. Dunn (2004), p. 16.
  7. History Blupete.com
  8. ^ Geoffery Plank. An Unsettled Conquest. University of Pennsylvania. 2001. pp. 76–77.
  9. Haynes, pp. 121, 125
  10. Haynes, p. 122
  11. Campbell, p. 132
  12. Robinson, p. 53; Haynes, p. 111, p. 114, p. 121
  13. Geoffery Plank. An Unsettled Conquest. University of Pennsylvania. 2001. p. 77; William Williamson, History of Maine. p. 101; Ruth Holmes Whithead. The Old Man Told Us. p.94
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  16. Robinson, p. 56
  17. Haynes, p. 142
  18. Geoffery Plank, An Unsettled Conquest. p. 78.
  19. ^ George Rawlyk. Cod, Louisbourg. and the Acadians. The Atlantic Region to Confederation: A History. p.114
  20. Haynes, p. 157
  21. Beamish Murdoch, History of Nova Scotia or Acadia, p. 399.
  22. Geoffery Plank, An Unsettled Conquest, p. 78
  23. Haynes, p. 158
  24. "Penhallow's Indian wars; a facsimile reprint of the first edition, printed in Boston in 1726, with the notes of earlier editors and additions from the original manuscript". archive.org. 1924.
  25. Benjamin Church, p. 289; John Grenier, p. 62
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