Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History
Benson Lossing, Ed.

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Nova Scotia.

In 1632 Charles I. resigned to Louis XIII. of France all claims to New France, Acadia (q. v.), and Canada, as the property of England. This restoration was fruitful of many ills to the English colonies and to England. Chalmers traces back to it the colonial disputes of later times and the American Revolution. The inhabitants of Nova Scotia were more in favor of the struggling Americans than were those of Canada. A large portion of them seemed desirous of linking their fortunes with the cause of the “Bostonians,” as the American patriots were called. They petitioned the Continental Congress on the subject of union, and opened communications with Washington; and Massachusetts was more than once asked to aid in revolutionizing that province. But its distance and weakness made such assistance impracticable. See Canada.