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Fort Gaspareaux
Strait Shores, New Brunswick, Canada
Site of Fort Gaspareaux in 2006
TypeFort
Site information
Controlled byFrance (1751–1755), United Kingdom (1755–1756)
National Historic Site of Canada
Official nameFort Gaspareaux National Historic Site of Canada
Designated1920
Site history
Built1751
In use1751-1756

Fort Gaspareaux (later Fort Monckton) was a French fort at the head of Baie Verte near the mouth of the Gaspareaux River and just southeast of the modern community of Strait Shores, New Brunswick, Canada, on the Isthmus of Chignecto. It was built during Father Le Loutre's War and is now a National Historic Site of Canada overlooking the Northumberland Strait.[1]

  1. ^ Fort Gaspareaux. Canadian Register of Historic Places. Retrieved 18 February 2012.

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