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Early Nova Scotia

Early Oak Island

Some things we know about the land mass that is called Nova Scotia:

The First Nations peoples, the Mi'kmaq, made Nova Scotia and Atlantic Canada their home for thousands of years. Nova Scotia is home to 10,000+ year-old paleo-Indian sites.

1000+ - The Norse settled in L'Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland, and evidence found there, suggests they traveled further south to the place they called Vinland.


1520's - Portuguese explorer, Estêvão Gomes, explored the coast and a group of Portuguese fishermen from the Azores created a fishing station here.

1566 - Cartographer, Bolongnini Zaltieri, gave the name "Larcadia" to an area that includes Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.  

1604 - Samuel de Champlain settled what is now called Fort Le Héve, in the Lahave River, not far from Mahone Bay.  In 1605, Champlain went on to build Port-Royal Habitation in the Bay of Fundy.

1621-1632  - Sir William Alexander created the Royal Charter of Nova Scotia in an attempt to create a New Scotland, with early attempts at settlement.  The Order of the Knight Baronets of Nova Scotia was created in 1624, the Nova Scotia's coat-of-arms in 1626, and the Scottish occupation of Port-Royal in 1629-32.  

1629-1632 - The French were holding on to their land claim at Fort St. Louis, near Port Latour, Nova Scotia.  For a brief period, the French reestablished Fort Le Héve.

1654 - Nova Scotia was under English rule.

1667 - Nova Scotia was under French rule.

1671 -  The first official French census.

1690 - Nova Scotia was taken by New England adventurer, Sir William Phips and then returned to the French in 1697.

1713 - Nova Scotia passed to the English via the Treaty of Utrecht for good.

1749 - The English started to colonize Nova Scotia with Foreign Protestants.
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Credit - Nova Scotia Archives Map Collection f/202​

1753 - First recorded owners of Oak island were New York fish merchants Richard Smith and John Gifford.

1755 - Captain Lewis  included Oak Island on his chart.

1759 - British Governor of Nova Scotia, Charles Lawrence, approved the Shoreham Grant, which offered free land grants as a way to generate population growth.

1762 - Shoreham Grant land, which included Oak Island, was approved by Charles Morris, Surveyor General of Nova Scotia, and the island was subdivided into 32 four acre lots.
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Credit - Department of Natural Resources Crown Land
1783 - End of the American Revolution sent a wave of settlers, the United Empire Loyalists, to the area.

​1791 - Poll tax record show Oak Island was inhabited and being farmed.
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Credit - Nova Scotia Archives RG 1 vol. 444 no. 4
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  • About
  • HISTORY
    • Early History
    • The Money Pit
    • The Onslow Company
    • The Oak Island Eldorado Company
    • Cave In Pit
    • The Truro Company
    • The Oak Island Association
    • The Oak Island Contract Company
    • Oak Island Treasure Company
    • The Old Gold Salvage and Wrecking Company
    • Oak Island Salvage Company
    • William S. Lozier
    • Edward W. Browne
    • William Chappell
    • Canadian Oak Island Treasure Co.
    • Gilbert Hedden
    • Professor Edwin H. Hamilton
    • Nathan Lindenbaum
    • John W. Lewis
    • M.R. Chappell & Fredrick Blair
    • George Greene
    • Harmon Brothers
    • Restall Family
    • Robert Dunfield
    • Les MacPhie Research
  • SHOP
  • contact