Rural Routes Prince Edward Island - Port-la-Joye–Fort Amherst National Historic Site of Canada

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Port-la-Joye–Fort Amherst National Historic Site of Canada

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Cornwall, PEI (Nearby: Clyde River, Warren Grove, Hampshire, Charlottetown, Miltonvale Park)

4 CORNWALL RD
Cornwall, Prince Edward Island
C0A 1H0

Prince Edward Island Tourism Region : Red Sands Shore

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In Lot 65 at Rocky Point. Site of Port La Joie, French settlement 1720, captured by British 1758.
Site of largest French settlement near Rocky Point, S of Charlottetown in early 1700s. In 1721, 100 people were living there.
That year Lt.-Col. Andrew Rollo (1703-65), 5th Baron Rollo, reported completion of Fort Amherst, named for his superior officer, Major-General Jeffrey Amherst (1717-97).
With permission from 'Prince Edward Island Place Names' David E. Scott 2011

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Nearby:	Cornwall, 0km East Wiltshire, 3km Meadowbank, 3km North River, 4km Lot 32, 5km Clyde River, 3km Warren(s) Grove, 5km Fairview, 5km Poplar Island, 5km Graham Rogers Lake, 5km York Point, 4km Lot 65, 5km New Dominion, 6km Afton, 6km Lewis Point, 5km West Royalty / COWS Creamery, 6km Brighton, 5km	Dunedin, 6km Lake Aberdeen, 6km Rocky Point, 6km Long Creek, 7km Milton (Station), 8km Lot 31, 6km Loyalist, 8km Winsloe, 8km Highfield, 8km New Haven, 6km Rocky Point 3, 6km Websters Island, 7km Nine Mile Creek, 9km Spring Park, 7km Hampshire, 8km Cumberland, 8km St. Catherines, 7km	Charlottetown, 7km St. Dunstan's, 7km Miltonvale Park, 10km Ardgowan National Historic Site of Canada, 7km Springvale, 10km Province House National Historic Site of Canada, 7km West River, 8km Rice Point, 10km South Winsloe, 10km Colville, 10km Sherwood, 8km Langley Beach, 8km New Argyle, 9km Rosebank (Point), 8km Parkdale, 8km Canoe Cove, 10km