Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia

Part of Lower George Street.

This town of 450 souls was the colonial capital of English Nova Scotia before the founding of Halifax in 1749. Earlier on it was the site of a French attempt at settlement starting with the year 1605, three years before Virginia was settled by the English. Pivotal to long quarrels between the French and the English it finally became English following the fall of the French outposts at Louisbourg on Cape Breton Island and Quebec City.