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Fort Beauséjour (French pronunciation: [fɔʁ boseʒuʁ]), renamed Fort Cumberland in 1755, is a large, five-bastioned fort on the Isthmus of Chignecto in eastern Canada, a neck of land connecting the present-day province of New Brunswick with that of Nova Scotia.
Beausejour (/ ˌ b oʊ z ə ˈ ʒ ʊər /) [1] is a town in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It is 46 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg , just west of the Canadian Shield and Whiteshell Provincial Park .
Beauséjour riding (formerly known as Beauséjour—Petitcodiac) is a federal electoral district in southeastern New Brunswick, Canada, which has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1988.
The highway travels east through Beausejour before heading southeast in concurrency with Highway 11 for approximately 20 kilometres (12 miles) and then continues southeast through Whiteshell Provincial Park. PTH 44 ends at the Trans-Canada Highway near the Ontario boundary.
Beausejour, Manitoba, a town in Manitoba, Canada Beausejour Blades, former ice hockey team in Beausejour; Beauséjour, Marne, a town in France, a scene of fighting during World War I; Beauséjour River, a river in Grenada; Beausejour Stadium, a cricket stadium located near Gros Islet, Saint Lucia; CFS Beausejour, former Canadian Forces Station
The Town of Beausejour is a separate urban municipality but shares some of administrative services with the RM of Brokenhead. Local urban districts Tyndall–Garson (includes the neighbouring communities of Tyndall and Garson)
Provincial Road 215 (PR 215) is a short provincial road in the Eastman Region of the Canadian province of Manitoba.. The road begins at Provincial Trunk Highway (PTH) 12, the boundary between the Rural Municipalities of Brokenhead and Springfield, and runs approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) east to the town of Beausejour.
As a result of the military buildup at Chignecto, as part of the larger coordinated effort of the French and Indian War, the Governor of Massachusetts, William Shirley planned to take Fort Beausejour. [14] Shirley's intelligence fermented the idea that the only way of saving Massachusetts was to attack Beauséjour. [6]