Cape Breton Island

Île Royale





YEAR DATE EVENT GOVERNOR
1600 april Part of French colony of New France
1711 15 september UK occupation Sir Hovenden Walker
1713 2 september French colony Joseph Monbeton de Brouillan de Saint-Ovide (I)
1714 2 october Philippe Pastour, sieur de Costebelle
1717 16 september Joseph Monbeton de Brouillan de Saint-Ovide (II)
1739 10 september Isaac-Louis de Forant
1740 10 may de Bourville
1740 2 november Jean-Baptiste-Louis Prévost du Quesnel
1744 9 october Louis du Pont du Chambon
1745 16 july UK occupation Sir Peter Warren
1746 2 june Charles Knowles
1747 september Peregrine Thomas Hopson
1749 12 july French colony Charles des Herbiers de la Ralière
1751 13 september Jean-Louis de Raymond, comte de Raymond
1753 october Charles Joseph d'Ailleboust
1754 15 august Augustin de Boschenry, chevalier de Drucourt
1758 26 july UK colony Jeffrey Amherst
1758 30 august William Whitmore
1763 7 october Part of UK colony of New Scotland
1784 26 august UK colony Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres
1787 26 august William Macarmick
1795 27 may David Mathews
1798 29 june James Ogilvie
1799 21 june John Murray
1800 16 september John Despard
1807 6 july Nicholas Nepean
1813 1 june Hugh Swayne
1816 6 february Fizherbert
1816 4 november George Robert Ainslie
1820 22 june David Stewart
1820 9 october Part of UK colony of New Scotland


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