07c – The Chevalier de Johnstone: From Culloden to Cape Breton – The Lost World of Cape Breton Island
The finale of our three part series on the life and times of James Johnstone. Follow the Chevalier de Johnstone’s escapades in Cape Breton from 1756 through to 1758 and see how this Scotsman’s memoirs tell the long forgotten stories of Cape Breton’s past.
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MUSIC:
Concerto Grosso for Strings “Palladio”: Allegro
Les Habitants – Quand J’étais Sur Mon Père
Sinfonia in G Minor, T. Si 7
Symphony No.8 in D Minor, Op. 2
Enigma Variations, Op. 36
1. Memoirs of the Rebellion of 1745 and 1746 – https://archive.org/details/memoirsof…
2. The Campaign of Louisbourg 1750 – ’58 – https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm….
3. Du Boscq de Beaumont, G. (1899). Les derniers jours de l’Acadie, 1748-1758, p. 65. Paris : E. Lechevalier
4. T. A. Crowley, “JOHNSTONE, JAMES, Chevalier de Johnstone,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 4, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003
5. Johnston, A. J. B. (Andrew John Bayly) Endgame 1758 : the promise, the glory, and the despair of Louisbourg’s last decade, 2007
The Lost World of Cape Breton Island 