Fort Edward is a National Historic Site in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada. The main feature of the fort is a blockhouse, which is all that remains or a more substantial structure first erected in 1750 by Major Charles Lawrence, the officers quarters and barracks having burned. The blockhouse is the oldest of its kind in Canada. Windsor is a small town located in central Nova Scotia at the junction of the Avon and St. ... A 19th-century-era block house in Fort York, Toronto In military science, a blockhouse is a small, isolated fort in the form of a single building. ... Charles Lawrence (December 14, 1709 – October 19, 1760) was a British military officer who, as lieutenant governor and subsequently governor of Nova Scotia, was responsible for overseeing the expulsion of Acadians from the colony in the Great Upheaval. ...

Fort Edward played an important role in the Expulsion of the Acadians in 1755. It was here that operations for the removal of Acadian settlers of the upper Annapolis River Valley were overseen. The fort itself was never attacked. The Great Upheaval (le Grand Dérangement), also known as the Great Expulsion or the Acadian Expulsion, is the eviction of the Acadian population from Nova Scotia between 1755 and 1763, ordered by governor Charles Lawrence and the Nova Scotia Council. ... 1755 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... The Annapolis River is a Canadian river located in Nova Scotias Annapolis Valley. ...

The Windsor Agricultural Fair was first held on the Fort grounds in 1765. An annual fall fair is still held nearby as the longest continuous adgricultural fair in North America (from 1815). The Jacobite heroine Flora MacDonald spent the winter of 1778 - 1779 at the Fort with her husband, Alan Macdonald, before she returned alone to Scotland. Fort Edward remained part of the British defences in Nova Scotia until 1850. During World War I, it was utlized as a training depot for Canadian and British soldiers. The site became known locally (but not officially) as "Camp Fort Edward" for the duration of the war. Among the recruits passing through the camp was the ill-fated Hollywood film director William Desmond Taylor. Flora MacDonald (1722 – March 5, 1790), Jacobite heroine, was the daughter of Ranald MacDonald of Milton in the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, and his wife Marion, the daughter of Angus MacDonald. ... William Desmond Taylor William Desmond Taylor (born William Cunningham Deane-Tanner April 26, 1872 in Carlow, Ireland – February 1, 1922 in Los Angeles) was a successful US film director and a popular figure in the growing Hollywood film colony of the 1910s and early 20s. ...

References

• Photos and history
• West Hants Historical Society
• Parks Canada Site