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Jadis capitale de l'Acadie, située entre Fort Beauséjour et Fort Lawrence. Concédée en 1676 à Michel LeNeuf de la Vallière, Seigneur de Chignecto, qui remplit les fonctions de commandant et gouverneur sous le Comte de Frontenac, 1678-84. Once capital of Acadia, situated between Fort Beauséjour and Fort Lawrence. Granted to Michel LeNeuf de la Vallière, Seigneur of Chignecto, 1676. There he acted as Commandant and Governor under Count de Frontenac, 1678-84. |
| Marker placed by Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada, in 1927. | |
| For further information on Tonge's Island, see Bill Hamilton, "Are There Islands on the Marsh ?", "Tantramar Flashback," #13 (see under Browse all Tantramar Flashback columns). On the earliest Acadian settlement and the role of de la Vallière, see Bird, Will R., A Century at Chignecto: The Key to Old Acadia (Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1928), pp. 1-30. On Michel LeNeuf de la Vallière (1640-1705), see Dictionary of Canadian Biography , Vol.II, pp. 409-411. | |
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