Port-Royal (Acadia)
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Port-Royal (1702)
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| Location | On the south bank of the Annapolis River at its discharge point into Annapolis Basin. |
| Coordinates | 44°44′30.0″N 65°30′55.0″W / 44.741667°N 65.515278°WCoordinates: 44°44′30.0″N 65°30′55.0″W / 44.741667°N 65.515278°W |
| Area | 1 hectare (2.5 acres) |
| Built | 1605-1710 |
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| Official name | Port-Royal National Historic Site of Canada |
| Designated | May 25, 1923 |
 Location of Port-Royal in Nova Scotia
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Not to be confused with the present-day community Port Royal, Annapolis County, Nova Scotia or Port-Royal National Historic Site
Port-Royal (Acadia) (present-day Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia) was founded in 1632, almost twenty years after Habitation at Port-Royal was destroyed. For most of the period until the Siege of Port Royal by the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1710, the village was the capital of Acadia. Port-Royal was the primary Acadian settlement until Acadians migrated out of the community to Pisiguit, Cobequid, Grand Pre, and Beaubassin (Isthmus of Chignecto) in the 1680s.
The Habitation at Port-Royal was established on the other side of the river by Samuel de Champlain and Pierre Du Gua de Monts in 1605 and it lasted until 1613.
During the Anglo-French War (1627–1629), under Charles I, by 1629 the Kirkes took Quebec City, Lord Ochiltree (Sir James Stewart of Killeith) planted a colony on Cape Breton Island at Baleine, and William Alexander established the first incarnation of “New Scotland” at Port-Royal (present day Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia). This set of British triumphs which left only Cape Sable (present-day Port La Tour, Nova Scotia) as the only major French holding in North America was not destined to last.
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