Charles Lawrence (1709 - 1760)

Born 14 Dec 1709 in Plymouth, England

Died 19 Oct 1760 at age 50 in Halifax, Nova Scotia

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Biography

Colonel Charles Lawrence is known for the settlement of Germans at Lunenburg in 1753, and the establishment of British authority, in the form of Fort Lawrence, on the Chignecto Isthmus, and the expulsion of Acadians from Nova Scotia (including present-day New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island) between 1755 and 1758. He died of pneumonia in Halifax, in 1760.

Buried in St. Paul's Anglican Church in Halifax, people (well, actually just one individual) of Acadian descent have been known to dance on his grave.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Tyler LeBlanc, "Forgetting Charles Lawrence" This.org (December 1, 2017)

• Charles Lawrence (British Army officer). (2014, July 16). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 12:10, October 19, 2014, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Lawrence_(British_Army_officer)&oldid=617186000

• "Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia." Governors of the Colony of Nova Scotia 1710-1786. https://lt.gov.ns.ca/history/governors-colony-nova-scotia-1710-1786 (accessed February 22, 2019).

• Dominick Graham, “LAWRENCE, CHARLES,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 3, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed October 19, 2014, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/lawrence_charles_3E.html.