Lecture / Seminar
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Jim Bremner’s talk about “J.F.W. DesBarres’s Castle Frederick.”
Located in Falmouth, Hants County, Castle Frederick has been the subject of a number of archaeological investigations over the past two decades and is considered to be an area of archaeological significance in Nova Scotia (including evidence of First Nations and pre- and post-Deportation Acadians). The site is best known for its association with J.F.W. DesBarres (1721-1824), soldier, cartographer-hydrographer, and colonial administrator who lived at Castle Frederick from 1764 until 1774. He controlled thousands of acres of land in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. His estate included a large Manor House and an observatory, perhaps one of the first in North America, built in 1763. Equipped with some of the most advanced astronomical devices of the time, the observatory was important as a location for the calibration of his survey instruments and DesBarres used Castle Frederick as a base of operation for his famous series of coastal maps entitled the Atlantic Neptune. Jim Bremner is a direct descendant of DesBarres and owner of Castle Frederick Farms, located on part of what was once a much larger estate.
randallhouse@live.ca
Jim Bremner’s talk about “J.F.W. DesBarres’s Castle Frederick.”
Located in Falmouth, Hants County, Castle Frederick has been the subject of a number of archaeological investigations over the past two decades and is considered to be an area of archaeological significance in Nova Scotia (including evidence of First Nations and pre- and post-Deportation Acadians). The site is best known for its association with J.F.W. DesBarres (1721-1824), soldier, cartographer-hydrographer, and colonial administrator who lived at Castle Frederick from 1764 until 1774. He controlled thousands of acres of land in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. His estate included a large Manor House and an observatory, perhaps one of the first in North America, built in 1763. Equipped with some of the most advanced astronomical devices of the time, the observatory was important as a location for the calibration of his survey instruments and DesBarres used Castle Frederick as a base of operation for his famous series of coastal maps entitled the Atlantic Neptune. Jim Bremner is a direct descendant of DesBarres and owner of Castle Frederick Farms, located on part of what was once a much larger estate.
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