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Photographs of
Fort Edward Blockhouse
1750

The oldest blockhouse in Canada, and one of the few
mid-18th century buildings still standing in Nova Scotia

http://museum.gov.ns.ca/musdir/fortedwardnationalhistoricsite.htm

National Historic Site

Windsor
Hants County
Nova Scotia

GPS location:   44°59'48"N   64°08'07"W

The Fort Edward blockhouse is located only 12 seconds of latitude – about 360 metres –
south of 45° latitude, half way between the Equator and the North Pole.

Fort Edward National Historic Site, Windsor

Photographed on 21 November 2002

Last Surviving Blockhouse

Photographed on 21 November 2002

Fort Edward Blockhouse, Windsor

Photographed on 21 November 2002

Fort Edward cairn, Windsor

Photographed on 21 November 2002

Plaque date: 1925

Photographed on 21 November 2002

Timeline of the Seven Years War 1754-1763
Fort Edward was constructed in 1750, as part of
the preliminaries that led to the Seven Years War.
Fort Edward by Wikipedia

Fort Edward Blockhouse, Windsor

Photographed on 24 December 2003

Blockhouse at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia

Source: Canadian Illustrated News, 27 December 1872
Reproduced from the National Library of Canada's website
http:www.nlc-bnc.ca/

Fort Edward Blockhouse, Windsor

Photographed on 21 November 2002

RCL: Royal Canadian Legion

Photographed on 21 November 2002

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Fort Edward, as it appeared in the early 1900s.
The building with the red roof, in the center of this photograph,
was the Officers' Quarters.  It burned down on 16 June 1922.

This Valentine & Sons postcard was postmarked in Windsor in June 1908.

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