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  • Conscious of the mistake that they had made in giving up Acadia, the French now claimed that its "ancient limits" did not extend beyond the isthmus of Chignecto -- in other words, included only Nova Scotia.

    Canada J. G. Bourinot

  • The peninsula is connected with the Province of New Brunswick by the Isthmus of Chignecto which is about twelve and a half miles wide.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • The head of the bay, especially the regions of the Minas Basin and Chignecto Bay experience the highest tides in the world!

    Atlantic Ocean 2008

  • The head of the bay, especially the regions of the Minas Basin and Chignecto Bay experience the highest tides in the world!

    Atlantic Ocean 2008

  • Hundreds of millions go to deepen the St. Lawrence to transport the ore by a safe route, but who has urged an alternative quicker and safe route by a Chignecto Canal and the Bay of Fundy?

    Parva Sub Ingenti (Small Under the Great) 1952

  • Then followed the erection of a fort at Chignecto, known as

    Canada J. G. Bourinot

  • English force of regular and colonial troops, chiefly the latter, {230} under the command of Colonel Monckton, who has given his name to a prosperous city on the isthmus of Chignecto, and of Colonels Winslow and Scott, captured the two French forts and took a good many prisoners, among whom were a considerable number of French Acadians, forced by the French to assist in the defence of Beauséjour.

    Canada J. G. Bourinot

  • Partridge Island, which is close at hand, commands exceptionally fine views, as Blomidon does also; the famous Capes d'Or and Chignecto, seven hundred and thirty to eight hundred feet high, with Advocate Harbor, are within pleasant driving distance.

    Over the Border: Acadia, the Home of "Evangeline"

  • Boishébert, Lanaudière, but the news of the disasters that had crippled the fleet, forced him to give up his plan of attacking Annapolis, and to withdraw to the isthmus of Chignecto, where he built a small fort at

    Canada J. G. Bourinot

  • D'Aunay continued his work of improving Port Royal and surrounding country, and the colony he founded was the parent of those large settlements that in the course of time stretched as far as the isthmus of Chignecto.

    Canada J. G. Bourinot

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