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There are two plaques on this monument
St. Peter's Canal / Le Canal Saint-Pierre
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Connecting St. Peter's Bay on the Atlantic Ocean with the Bras d'Or Lakes, St. Peter's Canal follows substantially the portage of the old French trading da…
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The community of St. Peter's is situated on the neck of land that separates the Bras d'Or Lake from the Atlantic Ocean. Up until the introduction of road and rail travel, the lake was the highway of the interior of Cape Breton and the oce…
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St. Peter's is one of Nova Scotia's oldest settlements. The Portuguese were likely here in the 1500s, calling it San Pedro.
In 1650, the French established a post nearby under the name of Saint-Pierre, where they traded with the Mi'kmaq …
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Nicolas Denys, a merchant from Tours, France, arrived here in 1650 to restore an abandoned Portuguese fort called San Pedro. He renamed it Saint-Pierre, and set out to pursue fishing and trading - primarily in furs. Fort Saint-Pierre, hi…