APPENDICES

Governors and Commanders of Acadia/Nova Scotia, 1604-1765

French & English Governors of Acadia

French proprietary governors, 1604-29

Pierre du Gua, sieur de Monts, 1604-07 (governed from Île St.-Croix, 1604-05; from Port-Royal, 1605-07)

(colony abandoned, no governor, 1607-10)

Jean de Biencourt, sieur de Poutrincourt, 1610-14 (from Port-Royal)

Charles de Biencourt, 1614-23 (from Port-Royal)

Charles Turgis de Saint-Etienne de La Tour, 1623-28/9 (from Port-Royal, Cap-Sable, & Rivière St.-Jean)

First English Interregnum, 1629-32

William Alexander, Count of Sterling (Nova Scotia) (governed from Port-Royal)

French proprietary governors, 1632-70

Isaac de Razilly, 1632-35 (governed from La Hève)

Charles de Menou de Charnizay, sieur d’Aulnay, 1635-38 (alone, from Port-Royal), 1638-41 (jointly from Port-Royal with La Tour as lieutenant governor), 1641-50 (alone, under title of governor-general, 1647-50, from Port-Royal)

Charles Turgis de Saint-Etienne de La Tour, 1638-41 (jointly with d'Aulnay as lieutenant governor, from Cap-Sable & Rivière St.-Jean), 1651-54 (alone, from Cap-Sable & Rivière St.-Jean)

Emmanuel Le Borgne de Bélisle, sieur du Coudray, 1654-68 (in absentia due to English occupation)

Alexandre Le Borgne de Bélisle, 1668-70 (in absentia due to English occupation)

Second English Interregnum, 1654-70

Sir Thomas Temple (peninsula Nova Scotia only, governed from Boston)

French royal governors and commanders, 1670-90

Hector d’Andigne de Grandfontaine, 1670-73 (governor, from Pentagoët) ... this and all subsequent French royal governors of Acadia were subject to the authority of the governors-general and the royal intendants of New France (Canada)

Jacques de Chambly, 1673-78 (governor, from Pentagoët; captured 1674, held in Boston; never returned to Acadia; nominally governor 1674-78)

Pierre de Joybert de Soulanges et de Marson, 1676-78 (commander then governor, from Rivière St.-Jean)

Michel Le Neuf de la Valliere et de Beaubassin, 1678-84 (commander until confirmed as governor in 1683, from Chignecto)

Clerbaud Bergier, 1684 (interim lieutenant, from Chedabouctou)

Francois-Marie Perrot, 1684-87 (governor, from Port-Royal)

Louis-Alexandre des Friches de Meneval, 1687-90 (governor, from Port-Royal; captured 1690, held in Boston; never returned to Acadia)

English "Occupation," 1690-92

Charles La Tourasse (commander at Port-Royal)

Edward Tyng (governed from Rivière St.-Jean)

French royal governors and commanders-continued, 1691-1711

Joseph Robinau de Villebon, 1691-1700 (governor, from Rivière St.-Jean)

Claude-Sebastien de Villieu, 1700-01 (temporary commander after sudden death of Villebon, from Port-Royal)

Jacques-Francois de Mombeton de Brouillan, 1701-05 (commander 1701-02, governor 1702-05, from Port-Royal)

Simon-Pierre Denys de Bonaventure, 1705-06 (commander, from Port-Royal)

Daniel d'Auger de Subercase, 1706-10 (commander then governor, from Port-Royal)

Bernard-Anselme d'Abbadie de Saint-Castin, 1711 (commander, from Pentagoët)

British Occupation, 1710-13

Francis Nicholson, governor (usually not present); Samuel Vetch, lieutenant governor (from Annapolis Royal & Boston); Sir Charles Hobby, commander-in-chief in Vetch's absence (from Annapolis Royal)

British Governors & Lieutenant or Deputy Governors of Nova Scotia, 1712-65

Francis Nicholson, governor (usually from Boston or England), 1712-17

Thomas Caulfield, lieutenant governor, 1712-17 (from Annapolis Royal)

Richard Phillips, governor (usually from England), 1717-49

John Doucett, acting for Phillips, 1717-25 (from Annapolis Royal)

Lawrence Armstrong, acting for Phillips, 1725-39 (from Annapolis Royal)

Alexander Cosby, acting for Phillips, 1739-40 (from Annapolis Royal)

Paul Mascarene, acting for Phillips, 1740-49 (from Annapolis Royal)

Edward Cornwallis, governor, 1749-52 (from Halifax, formerly Chebucto)

Peregrine Thomas Hopson, governor, 1752-56 (from Halifax until 1754, then from England)

Charles Lawrence, lieutenant governor, 1754-56, acting for Hopson (from Halifax); governor, 1756-60 (from Halifax; died in office)

Jonathan Belcher, Jr., lieutenant governor, 1760-63 (from Halifax)

Montague Wilmot, lieutenant governor, 1763-64; governor, 1764-65 (from Halifax)

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