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Nov 14, 2018 · The final product of this colonization was a printed and widely disseminated map of St. John, one widely anthologized in published atlases of the 1760s and 1770s. The Board of Trade’s scheme for settling St. John displaced independent colonists as the primary agents for New World colonization. In their place, trained surveyors documented the ...
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- The End of The Seven Years War
- Art Celebrates Heroes and Martyrs
- The King Steps in
- Britain Begins to Survey Saint John’s Island
- The Island as Artefact
In North America, the climax of the Seven Years War was the capture of Quebec City in September of 1759. With daring and success, the English, under General James Wolfe, fought well after a secret attack based on climbing difficult cliffs to a large pasture area called the Plains of Abraham today where they faced the disoriented French troops. The ...
Not only were the battles themselves celebrated with intimate, highly detailed maps, but the great human moments of the battles, again following an ancient tradition, depicted the victories – or deaths – of the major combatants. The first work of art to depict the death of General Wolfe was by the brilliant American painter Benjamin West. Benjamin ...
The new King of Great Britain and Ireland was George III, of the Hanoverian Dynasty, who was crowned at the age of 22. We tend to forget that he was not always a demented old man to be locked away. In this wonderful portrait done by the Scottish artist Allan Ramsay in 1761-62, we see a handsome young man, scarcely out of his teens, bedecked in the ...
In 1764 Samuel Holland was appointed Surveyor General of the Northern District, that is, everything in the new British Empire in America north of the Potomac River. Holland began with Saint John’s Island and Cape Breton or Ile Royale, and because there was urgency on the part of the Board of Trade to settle these colonies quickly, an effort was mad...
About 6000 years ago the Island separated from the mainland for the second time in the geological era as the force of water spilling out of the Saint Lawrence River dissolved and broke away the weak sandstone and shale matrix that formed the join. Thus Nature, as Creator, made an artefact that is the Island we live on today. But for 6,000 years bef...
Nov 25, 2020 · Maps of Ile Saint Jean and the Maritime Region from the collection of the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris. Nearly two years ago when I first planned this catalogue of maps of Ile Saint Jean in the French Regime, I had no idea that an extended search in the French National Archives would unearth so many largely anonymous, undated and mostly undocumented maps of the colony.
Sep 10, 2024 · Island Map:This site has a map of the island and shows the parishes, One clicks on the parish name and it contains all sorts of information. Transcript of 1841 census for the Channel Islands; Page dedicated to Channel Island research - Surname interests, Mailing list, Look-ups and other internet resources
Philippe d'Auvergne, Duc de Bouillon. Spymaster, Scientist, Writer and Sailor. Vice Admiral Philippe d'Auvergne, Royal Navy, fellow of the Royal Society, was buried in the churchyard of St Margaret's Westminster on 22nd September 1816 but he has no marker or memorial. He was born in St Helier on the island of Jersey and baptised in 1754.
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Aware of one another’s accomplishments, the four brothers sometimes employed the same artists, such as the sculptor Jean de Liège (Bust of Marie de France, 41.100.132), the sculptor, illuminator, and glass designer André Beauneveu (Prophet, 1995.301), and the illuminators Herman, Paul, and Jean de Limbourg (Belles Heures, 54.1.1).
